Reflections on the Stations of the Cross The First Station: Jesus is condemned to Death My first year of grad school I lived in a residential complex for upperclass and graduate students. Essentially they were apartments in a residence hall. There were five of us in a three-bedroom apartment. We met at the start of…
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Sunday Love Letters
When I was writing about Lent, an odd theme kept cropping up: relationships. It seemed off–I grew up associating Lent with repentance, sorrow and fasting. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that the purpose of repentance, sorrow and fasting is to mend the broken relationship with God. I came to…
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I seem to be collecting a lot of prayer intentions lately. Not that there’s anything strange about that–it’s just that for some reason, recently they seem to be hitting a lot closer to home. In times past, I used to promise to pray and then forget all about it. (Yes, I was one of those…
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Well, it’s here! Lent 2012 began in our house with Hooked on Classics at an approximately deafening volume, and a gorgeous gold-leaf sunrise outside the windows. It’s been tough to get myself mentally prepared this season, immersed as we are in the Tiny Baby Stage of parenthood once again. It seems every time I have…
Read MoreAre you ready for Lent? (book giveaway!)
Guess what? Lent is less than four weeks away. I know, probably most of you are sending die, evil woman, die! looks at your computer screen right now. I’m ahead of the game, but I have a good reason. I think Lent is the great misunderstood season, and it is possible to approach it with…
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Kathleen M. Basi 