Liturgical Index
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday. 'Remember that thou art
dust and unto dust thou shalt return.' Repent! And be quick about it. This
could, after all, be your last... more »
Ash Wednesday is not just a day in the liturgical year; it is the start of a forty day period or season culminating at Easter. Looked at as a day we... more »
Putting on weight not only means that we can't get into our favourite clothes but also that we don't feel as well as we would like and don't function... more »
A few yards from my cell in Santa Sabina in Rome is the cell formerly inhabited by Saint Pius V. Pope Pius, a Dominican friar who retained many of... more »
Ashes were once something, even a number of things, and are now a residue -- the original solidity and identity are gone, and what is left swirls... more »
More and more we seem to be worried by experts -- can we trust what they say or not? We have no choice, though, but to trust experts in a complicated... more »
It happens to me every year. On Ash Wednesday someone opens his mouth and stretches out his tongue at the very moment I am about to place ashes on... more »
Living on the edge of the city of Glasgow, I had to take the bus into school - a Jesuit school situated in the centre of the city - every morning... more »
Today Lent begins with the sign of ashes -- a communal sign of repentance. All over the world Catholics receive the sign of ashes on their foreheads... more »
Ashes are always significant. The remains of a camp fire in the woods; of a picnic; or of a bonfire. Signs of companionship; a family outing; a... more »
Today, Ash Wednesday, marks the beginning of Lent. For forty days we shall travel along a path of discovery. A path that should deepen and reawaken... more »
The Season of Lent begins on a negative note. On Ash Wednesday, when the ashes are distributed the Celebrant says, 'Remember that you are dust and to... more »
Now we are being told that too much praise is not good for us. But what is too much? Perhaps it would be better to say that the wrong kind of praise,... more »
