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Lent Begins with Ash Wednesday

Lent – Contemplating The Seven Sayings From the Cross Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday is a love story and in 2018 it fell on Valentine’s Day. Many people give something up for Lent, I prefer to take something up. Since the beginning of Lent coincides with Valentine’s Day this year, I... Read More

Epiphany – January 6

The festival of Epiphany which celebrates the baptism of Jesus occurs on the sixth of January and so we should skip forward a few verses and look at the account of the baptism in the four Gospels. The word epiphany is a combination of two words, epi, meaning on to,... Read More

Holy Night 13

Now we come to the 13th Holy Night. On the first Holy Night we celebrated the birth of Jesus. This birth awakened the deep memory within us of who we really are. It meant that we could touch the purity of our being as we were before we ever incarnated... Read More

Holy Night 12

January 4-5 – Sagittarius During the 12th night the crowns won are placed at the feet of the divine, because we have struggled against ourselves, but what we have wrung from it is grace, is the law of the spirit. Because grace is a stream from a source that a... Read More

Holy Night 11

January 3-4 – Scorpio The eleventh night: the struggle with the Guardian of the Threshold. Mystery: building up the Grail Castle in ourselves. Confessing ourselves more and more in faithfulness to the highest! Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Translation from German by Laura Zanutto... Read More

Holy Night 10

January 2-3 – Libra The night in which the greatest sacrifice grows from service: learning to listen to the inner voice and the signs of divinity, and to hear them obediently. Mystery: the voice calling in us through our various incarnations. Its clarity grows through sacrifice and decision. Rudolf Steiner’s... Read More

Holy Night 9

January 1-2 – Virgo Now come the three nights of the crown. Release from the only intellectual, or release of the intellect from its earthly bonds and purposefulness. This is the thrice-holy night, in which the lower ego falls away and only the desire to serve, to devote oneself, remains.... Read More

Holy Night 8

December 31 – January 1 – Leo The cross on the sword pommel: the sacrifice. Girded with the sword of the power of Christ, the tongue speaks the truth, without being able to wound. It is the night of re-setting. Mystery: The knight, the fighter with the lance of the... Read More