"Everything you do, all your work, can contribute towards your salvation. It depends on you, on the way you do it. History is replete with monks who became great saints while working in the kitchen or washing sheets. The way of salvation consists in working without passion, in prayer…. May God give you the strength to keep your spirit, your mind, and your heart in the spirit of Christ. Then everything that happens to you can very quickly be radically transformed. What was tiresome and discouraging will disappear, transfigured by your desire to be there where Christ your God is." Elder Sophrony

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Lent...Take One-The West.

Hubby played 5:30pm Mass this evening and I tagged along with my camera.
(I can 'hide' in the choir loft and take pictures.)

 



Our family has been spoiled for the last few years when Easter/Pascha fell on the same day East and West.  This year it is just a bit irritating that we are 'only' just a week 'apart'.  We have our own creative ways to deal with the date differences, liturgy schedules, fasting and other "Lenten" activities.  I guess all convert families must come to a state of compromise and happiness-and each one would be just a bit different.  To be truthful, there are times when we just throw our proverbial hands in the air and play the 'its all grace' and 'no one is perfect' cards. Live and learn, and pray.

Here is to a Blessed Lent, take one...

3 comments:

elizabeth said...

Indeed, blessed lent to this part of your family; would be hard at times but well, God is merciful. lots of love to you!

Mimi said...

Those cards are useful indeed!
I like it when we are off liturgially, as we get half off candy :)
Beautiful photos. A blessed Lent to you and your family.

eileen102 said...

Oh my gosh, Julianna, I so didn't recognize this as OLOL from the topmost picture! I was wondering where he was playing nowadays as I scrolled to the second pic. It wasn't until I saw the third one that I recognized it. I think I so focused on the atomic crib of the ambo-side screen, that I never looked at the whole sanctuary as a piece.

Blessed Lent.