HOLY WEEK: Palm Sunday, April 2 to Easter, Sunday, April 9
April 2-9: WAY of the CROSS Sun, Apr 2: PALM SUNDAY Thurs, Apr 6: MAUNDY THURSDAY Fri, Apr 7: HOLY FRIDAY Sun, Apr 9: EASTER SUNDAY
Lenten Reflection Day 38 (Mar 31): LAW (Psalm 40:5-10).
SONG: This Side of the Law by Johnny Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GWe4sOIEeY&feature=youtu.be POEM: Albert Goldbarth: Laws of the Universe (excerpt): … Well, we could: if the laws of the universe changed. It’s only the Earth that makes us so heavy. It’s only our lives that keep our lives / from floating off into the nothing. QUOTE: Herman[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 37 (Mar 30): WRITTEN (Psalm 40:5-10).
SONG: Written in the Stars by Tinie Tempah ft Eric Turner: https://youtu.be/YgFyi74DVjc POEM:Beatriz Miralles de Imperial, translated by Layla Benitez-James: “I write until my face is erased” – I write until my face is erased / only who I am no longer / can tell me SECOND POEM:Nabina Das: Anima Writes a Letter Home (excerpt):[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 36 (Mar 29): HERE I AM (Psalm 40:5-10).
SONG: Here I Am by Air Supply: https://youtu.be/B6rXBLRo_GU POEM:Rumi: Here I Am (excerpt): … In the silence surrounding every call of ‘Allah’Waits a thousand replies of ‘Here I am.’ QUOTE: Leo Tolstoy: Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 35 (Mar 28): SACRIFICE (Psalm 40:5-10).
SONG: Sacrifice by Elton John: https://youtu.be/NrLkTZrPZA4 POEM:Muriel Rukeyser: The Book of the Dead: The Dam (excerpt): … All power is saved, having no end. Rises / in the green season, in the sudden season / the white the budded / and the lost… learning its power, conquering boundaries, able to rise blind in revolts of[…]