lent is on the way

Lent begins this Wednesday (2/21) with Ash Wednesday services at 7am, 10am, 12noon, and 7pm at the Cathedral and 7pm at Holy Trinity.  Come get ashed with your friends and family and begin together this season of prayer and preparation for our own cycle of dying and rising with Christ!  Check with Michelle at the cathedral (838.4277) to get your copy of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s (EPF) lenten meditation guide for students. 

The cathedral will also host a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper this Tuesday (2/20) at 6pm in the Great Hall.  In the mardi gras (fat tuesday) tradition of celebrating to excess, we clear out our cupboard and refrigerators in preparation for the long season of fasting and prayer in the desert of our hearts and minds.  How many pancakes can you eat and still drive home safely?  Come and see!

 

A Fellow Anglican on Church and Scripture

I invite you to visit the following post to hear from one of the great hearts and minds in The Episcopal Church today.  Brother Tobias Haller, BSG is both passionate and balanced in his approach to these fundamental questions of our day — a refreshing voice in what is often a very vitriolic conversation about the proper role and function of Holy Scripture in guiding and guarding our journey into the heart of God and back, again, to the hopes and needs of the world.  I trust you’ll enjoy what he has to say.  Do take a look!

http://jintoku.blogspot.com/2007/01/leviticus-and-anglican-deformation.html

 

3000 and counting

What are folks doing to commemorate this horrific landmark?  What are folks doing to creatively and sensitively express support and concern for our soldiers, while at the same time attempting to speak a prophetic and constructive word about the sacrificial witness of Jesus, whose violent death on the cross was to be forever, for you and for me, God’s definitive ‘no’ to our preponderance to agitate and escalate the cycle of violence — inner-personally and inter-personally, locally and globally?

I know and trust that we share a fundamental vocation as Christians here in this time and place to bear witness to God — shining light in the darkness.  What it will look like for us, I don’t really know. But I think it’s time we start thinking and acting like we believe God actually has something to say about the state of the world we live in. How shall we live? What shall we do? Who’s active on this in Spokane? How can we support and encourage each other?