Falling into the Gap
Palm Sunday Scripture Readings Holy Week begins with Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. It ends in defeat and death. What happened there in the middle? Remember the advertising jingle from […]
Tag: Lent
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The Nature of Sin
Fourth Sunday of Lent Scripture Readings You know, it’s not every Sunday that I get significant theological insights and understanding from my work with the scriptures in preparing my homily […]
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Give Me a Drink
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst;
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Tell Me Who You Are
“He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.” (Cycle A)
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Power, The Great Delusion
"It is finished."
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A New Commandment
“I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
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Sin and the Law
“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
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Why Forgive?
“But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.”
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The Forbearance of God
“Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
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Transformational Experience
“Then from the cloud came a voice that said, ‘This is my chosen Son; listen to him.`”
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Lead Us Not into Temptation
“Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil.”
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Rewards of Penitence
“Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them”
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Service as Eucharist
“It is finished.”
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Selfless Eucharist
“I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
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What Are You Looking For?
Palm Sunday Scripture Readings God and humankind seem always to be at cross-purposes. God is forever reaching out to show himself to us, to tell us about himself, and to […]
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Doing the Truth
“Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
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Cleansing the Temple
“Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”
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Beyond the Bible
“This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
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Temptation Reimagined
“He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.”
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A Recipe for Repentance
"Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them."