http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/ Phyllis Tickle shares reflections and insights from her own Lenten Journey, from Ash Wednesday to Easter. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss And so we cry out this morning, as our kind have cried for centuries on every Easter morning: Christ has died. Christ has risen Christ will come again. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/easter-sunday-march-23-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/easter-sunday-march-23-2008.html Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Holy Saturday….Always that has seemed to me to be the strangest sort of name to put on this day. Holy? What is holy about utter silence, utter stillness, utter death? Hallowed, yes; but not holy, at least not yet, not... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/holy-saturday-march-22-2008-2.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/holy-saturday-march-22-2008-2.html Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 As I was nearing the end of the months of compiling the Sayings of Jesus into the The Words of Jesus volume and, even more, during these last five or six weeks since it has been published, I received, and... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/good-friday-march-21-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/good-friday-march-21-2008.html Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Jesus, as the Passover meal was ending, said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you. But not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/maundy-thursday-march-20-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/maundy-thursday-march-20-2008.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Lent ends today; or more correctly, this is the last, full day of Lent. Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, and tomorrow night at sunset, Lent gives way to the Triduum…to the three days that are the culmination of Lent. Tomorrow night,... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/wednesday-march-19-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/wednesday-march-19-2008.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Many long years ago--meaning well over a quarter of a century ago--I wrote a book about Lent entitled Final Sanity. It and/or pieces of it have been re-printed so many times that I don't even have a record of where... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/tuesday-march-18-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/tuesday-march-18-2008.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 My father was an academic all of his adult life. He started his career as the entire faculty and administration of a tiny, rural school and ended up as the Academic Dean of East Tennessee State University, a position he... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/monday-march-17-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/monday-march-17-2008.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Today is the first day of Holy Week, though actually, it's also a bit more than that: Palm Sunday is an interruption in Lent that manages somehow to lop off the next three days of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/palm-sunday-march-16-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/palm-sunday-march-16-2008.html Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. That means the beginning of Holy Week or, put another way, that means that Lent--and death and winter--are effectual almost over. Tomorrow will be a time of celebration that, in essence, refuses to look dead-on at... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/saturday-march-15-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/saturday-march-15-2008.html Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 When I die, I would have it said of me that I have lived a thankful life. I didn't know that when I started out. Reared in the middle-class work ethic and on the American principle of individualism, I thought... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/friday-march-14-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/friday-march-14-2008.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Yesterday was my birthday, and I am full of glee this morning…or at least I think what I feel is nearer to outright, childish glee than to anything else I know of. And the reason is that, for the next... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/thursday-march-13-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/thursday-march-13-2008.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0500 An editor asked me the other day about whether or not I knew of any ideas or concepts floating around out there in religion that had not yet been developed into book-length treatments, but should be. I think I... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/wednesday-march-12-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/wednesday-march-12-2008.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:42:42 -0500 Like most other seasons in the liturgical year, Lent is a time, at least in part, for heroes, for remembering and honoring and trying to emulate those who have preceded us in the faith. Lent is remarkably shy on heroines,... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/tuesday-march-11-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/tuesday-march-11-2008.html Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:14:25 -0500 I spend a lot of my life in hotels. That’s not a complaint, just an observation. Truth told, I like hotels. Left to my own devices, I have always said, in fact, that I would live in a hotel permanently,... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/monday-march-10-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/monday-march-10-2008.html Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:12:41 -0500 Gene Roddenberry and the Trekkies had it wrong all along. Space is not the final frontier. It never was. The ancients knew that long before there were telescopes with which to ponder space or flying machines with which to pierce... http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/sunday-march-9-2008.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/thedivinehoursoflent/2008/03/sunday-march-9-2008.html Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:34:39 -0500