March 2015 archives
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March 27, 2015 by Praxis
This Week at Saint Stephen’s Campus Ministry
Commemorate Palm Sunday with us on Sunday at 6:00 PM This Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, as we commemorate Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. It’s often talked about as the “triumphal” entry into Jerusalem, because Jesus appropriated much of the pomp and circumstance of a Roman triumph, but we shouldn’t take that to mean […]Archives
March 20, 2015 by Praxis
Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Feast Day with us!
Celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Patrick with us on Sunday at 6:00 PM This week we’ll celebrate everybody’s favorite March saint. All those people who wore green on Tuesday weren’t just making a fashion statement – they were aligning themselves with the Missionary to the Irish, an ex-slave who returned to his place of […]Archives
March 13, 2015 by Praxis
Celebrate the Feast Day of Gregory the Great with us on Sunday at 6:00 PM
Gregory the Great was born into a chaotic, violent time. The Rome of his childhood was a city beset by invading armies, and it changed hands repeatedly as the Byzantines battled the Visigoths. Because of this chaos, he became prefect of the city in his early thirties, then emissary to Byzantium. But all he really […]Archives
March 11, 2015 by Aaron Wright
A Reflection from Carl Fosnaugh IV on the life of Leonard Nimoy
He Lived Long and Prospered A Reflection on the life of Leonard Nimoy, a man who lived in the margins and Spock, the character that helped him do it. Before bowties were cool and time travel was wibbly, wobbly and timey, wimey. Before Harry learned his first spell. Before Clone troopers clashed with droid soldiers. […]Archives
March 5, 2015 by Karl Stevens
Fully Alive! A Pilgrimage in Chicago to Learn Improv
A line of people stood looking at a small table. It was empty, but they’d been told that there was a television on it, and asked to describe that television. “Use the phrase, ’it is,’ at the start of your description,” John Poole told them. Hesitantly, people offered their phrases. “It is black. It is […]Archives
March 2, 2015 by Karl Stevens