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  • A Task

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    A Task

    A Task (Day 40 of A Simple Lent) | Saturday A TASK by Czeslaw Milosz In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfill my life Only if I brought myself to make a public confession Revealing a sham, my own and of my epoch: We were permitted to shriek in the tongue of dwarfs…

  • Sabbath: Holy Saturday

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    Sabbath: Holy Saturday

    “The Sabbath” Read the Text: Mark 15:42-16:1 OK, I cheated. There is no text for Holy Saturday. It goes from the evening before the Sabbath to the day after. No Sabbath. Writers and theologians have been searching for the missing day for centuries. One of my favorite apocryphal stories comes from Piers Plowman, a medieval poem that…