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The Divine Hours of Lent
February 8, 2008
By
Phyllis Tickle
One of the great things for me is that for the last few years, I have been asked to do two days of the speaking at the Noon Day services that accompany the Calvary Waffle Shop. And by custom–it’s hardly old enough to be a tradition at this point and God forbid I should ever…
February 7, 2008
By
Phyllis Tickle
Calvary Episcopal Church is one of the oldest churches in Memphis…so old that it is wedged in, quite literally, amongst all kinds of office buildings and municipal and county court houses and administrative buildings. It sits only a couple of blocks north of Beale Street and only another three or four east of Front Street…
February 6, 2008 – Ash Wednesday
By
Phyllis Tickle
February 6, 2008 – Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday at last. Lent really is here now, and it’s one, slow, steady progression from now to Easter. I like that idea in theory, anyway…that idea of unremitting progress toward a holy day…except that Lent is not as even and unpunctuated a progression as that makes it sound…
February 5, 2008
By
Phyllis Tickle
February 5, 2008 Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, religiously speaking. Culturally speaking, it’s New Orleans and strings of cheap, glittery beads, and trombones in parade. Over the years, the ‘culturally’ part has managed to trump the ‘religiously’ part for most of us. Mardi Gras is a carnival long severed from its observant roots and re-planted…
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