http://pedrocabiya.com/category/resena/ I came down to the City to be with my fellow believers for Easter. I spent Holy Thursday with the Episcopalians, which was beautiful as always, and then Good Friday and the Vigil at a parish in Murray Hill. The experience of worship during Easter season in the City is unusual. The Churches are full, […]
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Easter Services.
09-Apr-10The Vigil Readings.
09-Apr-10http://viningsnaturalhealthcentre.co.uk/open-evening-beat-the-winter-blues-20th-october/index.php?profile=dove I was mildly disappointed by the readings that got left out during the Easter Vigil this year – notably the sacrifice of Isaac and Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones. Those are great readings! I suppose the sacrifice of Isaac is not PC, but that’s no reason to leave it out. From an […]
Bright Week Begins, Lent Ends.
12-Apr-09I just concluded the most successful churchgoing period of my life, and while nothing really ends, Easter marks a turning-point and it is good to look back from here. Lent is almost certainly supposed to be experienced together with Carnival. The extremity of the one makes no sense without its opposite. Carnival exhausts the body […]
My Favorite Vigil Reading.
11-Apr-09“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many bones in the open valley; and lo, […]