Tag: Lent

  • To Bless or Not To Bless

    That is the question I have for Monday. For the liturgical snobs out there, I know that it is Lent and we aren’t encouraged by Michno to bless in Lent, but to recite a “prayer over the people,” as was the most ancient custom of what would become the blessing much later.  It is a…

  • Lent is about trust

    In the first Sunday of Lent, we read about the Temptation of Jesus.  But is Jesus really tempted?  Or is there something else going on?  Who really needs to worry about temptation?  And what is Lent really about? If you were at St. Paul’s on Sunday, you may already know, but the rest of us…