Got my alarm set for Sunday morning, so that I can take advantage of the “drive-thru distribution” of blessed palms up at the parish.
And thus begins the oddest Holy Week I have ever experienced.
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Today’s find: Palms, becalmed
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Tags: Covid-19, Holy City, Holy Week, Hosanna, Jerusalem, Lamina, Old City Jerusalem, Palm frond, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday
Today’s find: Gethsemane
I got my hopes up when our pilgrimage leader said we’d have the Garden of Gethsemane pretty much to ourselves.
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Tags: Agony in the garden, Garden of Gethsemane, Gethsemane, Great Are You Lord, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Holy Week 2019
Today’s find: Companions
We are not always blessed by the company we keep.
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Tags: Betrayal Tuesday, Holy Land Pilgrimage, Holy Week, Holy Week 2019, Spy Tuesday
Today’s find: Vinegar
Sometimes I wonder why I do the things I do.
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Tags: Apple Cider Vinegar, Bad Habits, Bitter Tonic, Holy Week, Holy Week 2018, Psalm 69, Spy Wednesday, Vinegar, Weight Loss
Today’s find: Struggle
Springtime seems to be struggling a bit. It’s not catching on, not quite yet, in our part of the country.
But if you look closely, you can find the barest hint of the spectacle to come.
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Tags: Holy Week, kenosis, Lent 2018, Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday, Spring blooms, Springtime, Struggle, Surrender
Today’s find: Awaiting
In the silence…
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Tags: Anticipation, Emptiness, Holy Saturday, Holy Week, Silence, Triduum
Today’s find: Resting place
The 14th Station – Jesus is Laid in the Tomb. It’s been a favorite resting place, my spiritual oasis, for years.
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Tags: 14th Station, Good Friday, Holy Week, Jesus is Laid in the Tomb, Stations of the Cross, Way of the Cross
Today’s find: Breaking trust
Treachery permeates the liturgy in these final days and hours of our Lenten journey.
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Tags: Betrayal, Betrayal Wednesday, Holy Week, Jubilee Year of Mercy, Judas, Judas Iscariot
Today’s find: Forlorn
It looked a little forlorn, the “theme” banner from our just-completed ACTS retreat, when I got to church this morning.
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Tags: ACTS Retreats, Aroma therapy, Holy Week, Nard, Palm Sunday, Spikenard
Today’s find: Dinnertime
You know what I’m thinking so far this Holy Week? That it must have been fun to hang out with Jesus.
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Tags: Dinnertime, Holy Week, Judas Iscariot, Martha and Mary, Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius Loyola
With Us Still 