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Reading Luke’s Transfiguration: An Icon and a Lenten Manifesto

What is it that Peter, John, and James perceive when they follow Jesus up the mountain and enter into the silence of Tabor? Not “words” as they are wont to hear them, but speech, singular and purified.

Seeing Jesus before penitence: No return to the Gesimas

Epiphany has become a season, and that is a good thing.

Bringing back the ’Gesimas: A liturgical proposal

Pruned of the Gesimas, Lent is a far less coherent season. Ash Wednesday comes out of the blue, as congregants spent the Sunday prior contemplating the splendors of the Holy Mount.

The seventeen days

Pre-Lent rolled in early this year. Septuagesima already past, at the Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Sexagesima as well, with Quinquagesima looming

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