St. Lydia's

Today we remember that we are dust - just like last year and the year before and for as far back as we can remember caring about this day, Ash Wednesday. But we must be told we are dust. We tell each other we are dust. It's not enough to tell ourselves that we are

For a recent meeting of St. Lydia's Leadership Table (basically, our vestry), I was asked to offer a reflection on the lectionary text of the week, Luke 4.16-24. Afterwards, I was asked if I'd write it up for St. Lydia's blog, if you'd like to read it. I swear a bit, so you know it's

for rp.

During Passion Week, everything moves faster. We've been trudging through Lent, our disciplines starting to bite by now, and the routine has started to take on a tedium. Then Passion Week and boom, suddenly things kick into high gear: Jesus is heralded into Jerusalem and just over seventy-two hours later, we find ourselves at Maundy

I like her sermons: http://sitandeat.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/ripeness-and-rot-.html