Ceremony planning
Good evening blog readers! Right now I'm at my home in West Allis, safely inside from the windy and dangerous snow [...]
Good evening blog readers! Right now I'm at my home in West Allis, safely inside from the windy and dangerous snow [...]
Q: My 10-year-old son said to me, “Didn’t we already have Advent last year? Why are we doing it again?” Can you help me answer his question?
Your son asked a very good question! If the baby Jesus was already born, lived his life, died and rose, why are we preparing for his coming all over again? The liturgical year of the church is often depicted as a circle and we refer to it as a cycle in that it comes around again and again every year.
As we celebrate this cycle through our liturgy, we remember the events of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The liturgical year is divided into two main seasons of preparation and celebration: Advent leads us to Christmas, and Lent leads us to Easter and Pentecost. Periods of Ordinary Time come between these major seasons.
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You are an Altairian.
That’s because you live on the planet Altair-2. You’re attending high school there, and have just been given a tough homework assignment. Your teacher requires a research paper on the odd inhabitants of Earth, a plant located in the galaxy just to the left.
You ask, “What makes them so special?”
Your teacher answers, “Earthlings seem to be evenly divided about whether it is better to love one another or hate one another. The assignment is for you to find out which impulse is more powerful.”
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