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WBB Holy Week – Maundy Thursday

These are scary times. Just like Jesus, we are afraid.

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Wednesday of Holy Week – The Dispute at the Table

Maybe it is a good thing that we are on a Eucharistic fast.

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Tuesday of Holy Week – Jesus sets the table

This is not the language of victory,

this is language of death.

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Monday of Holy Week – Jesus Weeps

Tears are God’s default.

Judgement is never found

outside of the embrace of grief

in the heart of God.

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WBB Holy Week 2020: Palm Sunday

The stones would cry out. By the end of the week, one of them would engage in an act of civil disobedience.

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WBB Holy Week: Palm Sunday

Before this week is out,

a stone will engage in a radical act

of civil disobedience.

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Holy Week and Bitter Tears: A Pastoral Letter

Hope is going to be a discipline this year.

We’re going to have to work a little harder

to wrestle hope out of the jaws of despondency and despair.

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WBB On-line Worship: Foreboding and Hope

Foreboding is anticipatory grief. It is real.

It mustn’t be numbed out.

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The Breath of God in the Face of COVID-19

In the face of a pandemic of breath-taking proportions,

the breath of God conspires with all of creation for new life.

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Prayers in a Pandemic

[Diocesan Bishop of Toronto, Andrew Asbil has designated Thursday, March 26 as a Diocesan Day of Prayer for Covid-19. 

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