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Staying in the present

ByAmy January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

We learn in Advent to stay in the present, that only the present well lived can possibly lead us to the fullness of life. Life is not meant to be escaped, we learn, as the liturgical year moves from season to season, from feast to feast. It is meant to be penetrated, to be plumbed…

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The Liturgical Year

ByAmy January 2, 2023January 2, 2023

My Christmas books (the ones I have received and the ones I have read…minus the Agatha Christies) have centered both on habits and on the liturgical calendar. I hadn’t made the connection between habits – which I typically consider to be daily, or at least frequent, and automatic – and the liturgical calendar, which is…