Called to be good
Fourth Sunday of Easter – May 11, 2025 As we move into the middle of the Easter season and, for some, the warmth of summer, we might be feeling a post-meal nap coming on following last week’s breakfast on the … Read More
Breaking the fast
Third Sunday of Easter – May 4, 2025 “Come, have breakfast.” How often have we heard those words or something similar in our lifetime? Mothers, grandmothers, dads, lovers, hosts, all inviting us to eat. Strangers and soon-to-be-friends asking us to … Read More
Tell what you see
Second Sunday of Easter – April 27, 2025 Ten-year-old Laura Lentz’s father examined the letter she was writing to her favorite cousin. “All you do is write about yourself,” the future author recalled him saying. He placed another paper in … Read More
Here and now
Fifth Sunday of Lent – April 6, 2025 Last Sunday’s backstory of the Israelites crossing the Jordan River as they had once done at the Red Sea is a good lead-in to today’s first reading. But it also seems to … Read More
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