Lent & Easter

Lenten Reflection Day 3 (Feb 24): FASTING  (from Joel 2:12-17).

SONG: Fasting Song by James Ironshell: https://youtu.be/TLcqpegeI5o POEM: Jorie Graham: Fast (excerpt). Fast or starve. Too much. Or not enough. Or. Nothing else? QUOTE: Terry Pratchett: Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil … prayer, fasting, good works and so on.

Lenten Reflection Day 2 (Feb 23): RETURN (from Joel 2:12-17).

SONG: Return to Innocence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08 POEM: The Return (excerpt) by Ezra Pound. … See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,” inviolable. QUOTE: JRR Tolkien: I sit beside the fire and think of[…]

Lent Devotion Day 1 (Feb 22): ASH (from Isaiah 58: 1-12).

SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w&feature=youtu.be QUOTE: Cormac McCarthy: All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. POEM: Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Rising of the Ashes [Before] – excerpt: I pace the abyss. I descend. I am suspended. The ashes still[…]

Ash Wednesday with JCC: Reflections and schedule

JOEL 2:12-13Yet even now, says the Lord,  return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;  rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love… WED, Feb 22 MUSINGS on ASH If you have[…]

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