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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

Three poems for the end of Epiphany

At the far edge of our science we aren’t looking so much at stars anymore as at the older light that was what the stars were before they were stars,

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