Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Season of Lent Lent is intended to be a joyful walk toward Easter, a progression of the Church toward the summit of the liturgical year. The focus is on uncovering and rejecting everything that tarnishes or warps Christ’s image within us, all that keeps us from being READ MORE
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Fourth Sunday of Lent
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Season of Lent Lent is intended to be a joyful walk toward Easter, a progression of the Church toward the summit of the liturgical year. The focus is on uncovering and rejecting everything that tarnishes or warps Christ’s image within us, all that keeps us from being READ MORE
Third Sunday of Lent
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Season of Lent Lent is intended to be a joyful walk toward Easter, a progression of the Church toward the summit of the liturgical year. The focus is on uncovering and rejecting everything that tarnishes or warps Christ’s image within us, all that keeps us from being READ MORE
Second Sunday of Lent
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Season of Lent Lent is intended to be a joyful walk toward Easter, a progression of the Church toward the summit of the liturgical year. The focus is on uncovering and rejecting everything that tarnishes or warps Christ’s image within us, all that keeps us from being READ MORE
First Sunday of Lent
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Season of Lent More information here Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 Book background In this reading, we have a story that grapples with the origins of sin and death. The genre of this reading is “myth.” Myth can mean “a widely held but false belief or idea.” While this READ MORE
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Ordinary Time, The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation The title “Ordinary Time” is taken from the Latin ordinal, from which we get our word ordinary. It’s not that this season is bah ha humdrum. Rather, it is a season of counting time from week to week. During Ordinary Time this year, we will march through the READ MORE
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Sirach 15:15-20 Book background The reading today comes from a section on Free Will and Responsibility covering 15:11 – 16:23. Because we have free will, we can’t blame our sin on God. That’s Sirach’s READ MORE
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Isaiah 58:7-10 Book background The gospel reading this week will tell us to be salt for the world and to let our light shine before others. Because this is Ordinary Time, we interpret the READ MORE
4th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 Book background We only hear from this minor prophet twice in the Sunday liturgy cycle, probably because he is one of those fire and brimstone sort of prophets. But there are READ MORE
3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Ordinary Time More information can be found here. Isaiah 8:23 – 9:3 Book background These verses are part of a hymn that would be sung on the accession of a new king. Later, they were applied to a long-awaited king that might READ MORE