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An alert reader asked via email what to do about the Annunciation falling on a Sunday in Lent this year (Judica even - the beginning of Passiontide). Here's how I responded. 

How can I not have read this before? What a travesty. I feel cheated. It's probably Petersen's fault. He's read it before, I bet. Read the whole thing. It will take you a while, but it is very much worth it.

Just a few notes as the SID convention enters its last day. 1. Once again, a resolution asking the Synod to get a plan together to end "lay ministry" will be headed to HQ. This was overwhelmingly passed in 2010 as well.

A couple of good things from the seminaries lately. First, since CTQ started getting caught up about a year and a half ago, the issues have been amazing. The last two are especially wonderful.

As in many other parishes, we hold an additional prayer office each week in Lent. Compline has settled into being the office we use most years, though Vespers and Evening Prayer have had their turns. But what of the readings?

The  incomparable Dr. William Tighe, an Anglophile Eastern Rite (Ukranian) Catholic professor of history (specializing in the English and Scandinavian Reformations) teaching at a college named for the pioneer of American Lutheranism, for some reason likes to read this blog. More than that, he likes to send the editors books. Good books. Really good books. Books you should read this Lent as part of your spiritual exercise. Here are the sparest of reviews for two of them.