1. This day and its meaning provided the opportunity for an anonymous author to write a poem for Sheer Thursday about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
  2. This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.
  3. St. Patrick was great but only because he was a slave to Christ.
  4. Patrick's breakthrough came when he began to leverage his knowledge of the native language and customs to build a bridge between Irish lore and the Christian mythos.
  5. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  6. He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.
  7. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  8. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  9. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  10. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  11. The more I got to know Dr. Rosenbladt, the more I saw that he wasn’t a man divided.
  12. He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.