With October we enter a season of gratitude.  Thanks for cooler weather, for roses blooming again, and for the pyracantha bushes showing off berries as orange as the pumpkins.  Thanks for the last of the summer crops –melons and tomatoes, and thanks for Apple Hill apples, and for the new greens that come with the first rains…

In the church we have a calendar which follows events in Jesus’ life and the life of the Church, like Christmas, Easter and Pentecost, but we also have a calendar which connects us to the world in which we live, we might focus on “work” on Labor Day and “love” on Valentines…

The 40 days which follow Easter are called Eastertide – a season when the new life and hope of Easter spreads across our lives like a great tidal wave --or so we hope. Certainly we remember the joy of brand new life and renewed love when we celebrate Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day. When children run with wild glee on the last day of school, and young men and women march with self-conscious new dignity to “Pomp and Circumstance”, we are reminded of many new beginnings, in their lives and ours…

THOUGHTS ON EASTER…

Easter is the season for white – white of holiness, white of all colors of the spectrum. People speak of this season as “Eastertide” which evokes the image of a great high tide or wave sweeping across the land bringing everything healing and new life…

What is the Season of Lent about? 

In the Church calendar, Lent is the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter (not counting Sundays). This year that is March 5th to April 20th. During the season of Lent we journey with Jesus to the cross…