by Fr. Brian Barry | Apr 18, 2019 | Lent, News & Events
We come back again this week to the greatest festival of the Christian year, the Great Triduum (“three days”), beginning on the evening of Maundy Thursday and ending at sundown on Easter Sunday. (Here’s a quick summary: Maundy Thursday commemorates the institution of...
by Abby Donis | Apr 4, 2019 | Lent, News & Events
For the last two winters we have sent a handful of our students (along with a brave group of adult volunteers) to Hebron, New Hampshire, for a weekend retreat at Camp Berea. The regional event, called Deep Freeze, provides an opportunity for more than 150 students...
by Joshua Rawleigh | Mar 21, 2019 | Lent, News & Events
On Thursday, March 21st, we celebrated the Feast Day of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), reformer of the Anglican Church, writer of the Book of Common Prayer, and martyr for his beliefs. (It’s worth noting that the complete texts of the ACNA’s Book...
by Fr. Brian Barry | Mar 14, 2019 | Lent, News & Events
This Sunday, March 3, amidst the last gasps of winter, one-hour clock corrections, and resulting very low attendance, we observed the First Sunday in Lent. If you missed it, don’t worry, there are five more Sundays before Easter, so there is still plenty of time. Lent...
by Fr. Brian Barry | Mar 6, 2019 | Lent, News & Events
In 2006, as a first-year seminary student at Gordon-Conwell, I walked into an early morning Ash Wednesday service. I had not grown up in a context where Lent was observed, and I was curious. Little did I know that, thirteen years later, I would still be with the same...
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