Rock bottom
Fourth Sunday of Lent – Mar 30, 2025 Led by Joshua, successor to Moses, and following the Ark of the Covenant, the Israelites finally arrive at the banks of the Jordan. Forty years earlier, they also stood on a shoreline … Read More
Give attention
Third Sunday of Lent – Mar 23, 2025 Burning bushes and barren fig trees, a call to lead and a call to repent. The connection between today’s first reading and its paired Gospel passage isn’t immediately obvious. Perhaps that is … Read More
Clouded Vision
Second Sunday of Lent – Mar 16, 2025 In his commentary on this passage (workingpreacher.com), biblical scholar Justin Michael Reed highlights a bias revealed in the omitted verses from today’s Genesis pericope. The catalyst for God’s promise to Abram of … Read More
On the precipice of new life
First Sunday of Lent – Mar 9, 2025 Some biblical scholars describe today’s passage from Deuteronomy as an early historical creed. Standing at the edge of the promised land, Moses teaches the Israelites the rituals that will help them remember … Read More
Rich in kindness
Ash Wednesday – Mar 5, 2025 Leadership gurus say that if you want to inspire change, “start with why.” Why is it important? Why does it matter? Why should anyone care? In today’s first reading, the prophet Joel lays out … Read More
The Fruit of our Lives
Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Mar 2, 2025 On this last Sunday before Lent, parishes are preparing to send their catechumens, whom they discern ready for initiation, to their bishop for election next week. At that rite, the bishop … Read More
Present in mystery
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time – Feb 23, 2025 Jesus’s lessons this Sunday from his sermon on the plain are especially necessary today in our polarized church and nation. When people are entrenched in their own standpoints, unwilling to let … Read More
Side by side
Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Feb 16, 2025 Before the passage from today’s Gospel, we find Jesus choosing his twelve closest partners. Many more had begun following him, compelled by his miraculous healing power and ability to persuade, teach, … Read More
Gathered and blessed
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord – Feb 2, 2025 This year, several feasts and solemnities will interject a specific focus of the paschal mystery into the Sundays of Ordinary Time. Today is one of those feasts. Occurring 40 … Read More