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Quiet Rest
April 3, 2021 | By Andrew Raines
They have anointed his body with oil
And veiled his face like a bride.
They have laid him in Joseph’s tomb...
An Appointed Place
April 2, 2021 | By Jeremy Begbie
Many of us are haunted by the memory of a missed opportunity. Near the end of Graham Greene’s novel, The Power and the Glory, an old priest sits in his cell the night before his execution. He looks back over his life, thinking of all the things he could have done and should have done, could have said and should have said. As Greene has it, “He felt like someone who had missed happiness by seconds at an appointed place.”
Simple Truths to Cling to
March 31, 2021 | By Shiwen Yeo MC ‘23
I grew up in a convent. People often joke that I seem nothing like a convent girl and are genuinely surprised whenever I say that I didn’t go to elementary school. And while I was not raised Catholic, I think that my convent years had a profound impact on my spiritual life, in little ways that really add up.
Jesus Wept: In Defense of Sorrow
March 22, 2021 | By Bella Gamboa JE ‘22
Sorrow is a particularly relevant emotion during Lent, all the more so in a Lenten season that marks a year of profound hardship. In my own life, I find that sorrow is quite an accessible emotion. I only occasionally experience the overflowing exuberance that I feel I ought to have as a Christian, as one who has eternal hope and salvation in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ—the events which Christians eagerly and repentantly await throughout these forty days.
We Are an Easter People
March 20, 2021 | By Andrew Forrester
So why all the doom and gloom? If our Lord and Savior really is risen, and our sins have really been forgiven, why should we be sorrowful at all? During Lent, our preparation for the joy we take in the day of the resurrection, should we not be joyful since we know what’s coming?
Worship As Broken Flask People
March 17, 2021 | By Daniel Chabeda ES ‘21
All four biblical accounts of Jesus Christ’s life on earth contain the story of a woman who poured ointment on Jesus. The narrative starts at a dinner party in the town of Bethany:
Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany... So they gave a dinner for him there…
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