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PH’s Page – May will be a month of transition for all of us at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church. First, it will be the month that sees the transition of our liturgical life from the season of Easter to the time that the church calls “ordinary.”  It’s not ordinary in the sense of dull or boring, that’s for sure.  The Sundays that will weave through our lives from late May…

PH’s Page – Try to think of it more as a way of being than as a single Sunday in springtime.  Easter, that is.  Try this, “what does it mean to live a life of resurrection?” If we think of Easter as only one day, it’s hard to let it be the life-giving, life-changing gift that it is.  The ancient church gives us some help with that.  They’ve never thought of Easter as a…

PH’s Page – On Sunday, 27 March, I’ll be celebrating my 61st Easter.  I was born on Good Friday 1956, so I don’t really remember that first Easter of my life, but there are few after that one that do not loom large in my memory. Soon after I came to Seattle in 1996, I think that my Holy Week and Easter season question became consistent.  “Where in the world am I seeing…