All posts tagged Lent
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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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