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The Litany of Penitence prepares us for the season to come.

March 13, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 3 Comments

If I want to be able to absorb all the new life Easter has to offer – all the resistance it offers to the powers of sin in our broken world – I need the grace that comes with honest confession and repentance.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: agriculture, Book of Common Prayer, compost, Easter, liturgy, penitence, resurrection, sin

My Lenten Discipline: Respecting Death

February 28, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 2 Comments

My hope is that–with one eye on my prayer book, and the other on the compost heap–I can come to respect the work death does for us… the life it enables to take root.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, compost, death, Lent, repentance, spring, winter

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