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Suffering: Chapter 19 of Joan Chittister’s “The Liturgical Year”
by Ian Walden “With or without our permission, with or without our understanding, eventually suffering comes. Then the only question is how to endure it, how to accept it, how to cope with it, how to...
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Holy Week: Chapters 20 & 21 of Joan Chittister’s ‘The Liturgical Year’
by Andrea Tisher Holy Week is here. Now. We’re in it. Already. Jesus has entered the city of peace. He has been sung to, lauded, waved at with greenery. He has wept over the misunderstanding of who He...
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Holy Thursday: Chapter 22 of Joan Chittister’s ‘The Liturgical Year’
by Ian Walden “Holy Thursday is, indeed, a study in mixed emotions.” Today, we disparate disciples will enjoy Communion like no other – but by night’s end we’ll be scattered, each to our own fears....
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The Weight of Good Friday: Chapter 23 of Joan Chittister’s “The Liturgical Year”
by Stacey Gleddiesmith Good Friday. The day when hope falters and darkness seems to triumph. Joan Chittister describes the pain of second-century Israel: “the grief was still raw. After all, they were...
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Holy Saturday – Facing the Darkness: Chapter 24 of Joan Chittister’s “The...
Holy Saturday is one of the least observed days in the liturgical year – mostly because nothing happens. “There are no public ceremonies, no particular liturgies to interrupt the sense of waiting and...
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Easter Sunday: Chapter 25 of Joan Chittister’s ‘The Liturgical Year’
by Ian Walden “This is the very center of the church. This, not the birth of a baby, is the reason we celebrate Christmas. This is the reason for all the feasts of the church. This is the place from...
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Paschaltide: The Days of Pentecost (Chapter 27 of Joan Chittister’s The...
by Andrea Tisher So much of life is lived as one event after another. We anticipate and over-expect and then pick apart all the ways the event did (or mostly didn’t?) live up to our expectations. And...
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Fidelity, or “Why do we bother?”: Chapter 28 of Joan Chittister’s ‘The...
by Ian Walden The sun is setting. The feast of Easter is fading to memory. Ahead lies the long road of Ordinary Time. The next ‘high point’ in the Liturgical Year is a long, long way away. So when the...
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Oh Lord, I want to be in that number! (a post on Chapter 30 of Joan...
by Andrea Tisher I’m not accustomed to feast days. Haven’t grown up with them. And don’t have any sense of when they occur in the calendar. But I am used to thinking about the ‘cloud of witnesses’ – I...
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Summing-up the Liturgical Year Experiment
Joan Chittister, “The Liturgical Year” This past year (liturgical year, that is) I (Stacey Gleddiesmith – SG) have been walking through the Christian seasons with Ian Walden (IW) and Andrea Tisher (AT)...
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