All posts tagged Lent

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We Can Change the World

It is not our insistence that others follow our values that will change the world. It is our faithful response in action to the example of the One whom we …

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Fifty Days of Easter

Our contemporary North American celebration of many traditional Christian feasts such as Christmas or Easter has grown increasingly commercialized and secularized. Christmas and Easter decorations usually appear in stores many …

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Keep Our Eyes on Jesus

As we begin the week of the Passion there seems a jolt in our readings. The Passion of Luke is proclaimed today but we will step back to follow the …

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Everyday Spiritual Life

Seven centuries separates what is described in these two readings and still they are closely intertwined. Jeremiah and Jesus brought God too proximate for comfort. Jeremiah upset dynastic theological foundations. …

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Wait for Him Who Loves You

Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of the Israelite people. God promised to guide and protect them: He is their God, and they are His people. They were freed from …

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Water of Life

Our first reading today in which Ezechial speaks ecstatically of life-giving water flowing out of the temple reminded me of 2003 and Hurricane Jeanne when we had a flood of …

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The Lost and Found Department – a k a. Reconciliation

When we began the Lenten season on Ash Wednesday we read the same part of the second letter to the Corinthians we hear today, ‘We are ambassadors for Christ. It …

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