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BY ANDREW RAINES Thank you for walking the Lenten road with us from Ash Wednesday until this glorious new morning. It’s been our honor to share our meditations and prayers with you. We close with the words of a fourth-century bishop. Every Easter, Orthodox Christians hear this sermon by St. John Chrysostom read during morning […]

BY ANDREW RAINES They have anointed his body with oil And veiled his face like a bride. They have laid him in Joseph’s tomb… What bride gave you her veil to wear? What kind of sleep steals you away? Darkness cloaks you. You cannot hear me. Your lips hold no last parable. Your tongue speaks […]

BY JEREMY BEGBIE Many of us are haunted by the memory of a missed opportunity. Near the end of Graham Greene’s novel, The Power and the Glory, an old priest sits in his cell the night before his execution. He looks back over his life, thinking of all the things he could have done and […]

This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/two-thieves. BY JOHN DAOUD Lent calls us to improve and deepen our relationship with the Lord in many ways. One such way is through an examination of his Passion. I have recently been […]

BY SHIWEN YAO This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/simple-truths-to-cling-to. I grew up in a convent. People often joke that I seem nothing like a convent girl and are genuinely surprised whenever I say that I didn’t go to […]

BY BEN COLON-EMERIC This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/the-god-burrito-paradox. Could God microwave a burrito so hot that He Himself could not eat it? Despite the inherent silliness involved with placing God in the same sentence as the word […]

BY AUDREY HUANG This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/reflections-on-wilderness-this-lenten-season. I first heard about the season of Lent my freshman year at Yale. Beloved Jesus lived in the wilderness and was tempted by Satan for 40 days, I heard […]

BY JASON LEE This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/i-hide-myself. Repentance, cloaked not in Eden’s leaves, but the words of others, which are more familiar, and less agonizing to order, than any I could write myself. “I heard the […]

BY BARKOTEL ZEMENU This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/the-return-of-the-prodigal-son. During winter break, I was in a book group for first years at Yale Students for Christ (YSC). It was the only major YSC activity I was doing, yet […]