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Today’s readings Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. Today we begin something really important. And I don’t mean just the smudging of our foreheads with the ashes of burnt palms. That’s just an … Continued
Today’s readings So the disciples are waiting for Jesus to come down the mountain after the Transfiguration. They have attempted to cure a man’s son from the hold of a demon, but they were apparently unable to do so. This … Continued
Today’s readings Our readings have been reminding us that the night is far spent and the day is drawing near. We are called upon today to remain vigilant so that we do not miss the second coming of the Lord. And it … Continued
Today’s readings Try as we might for perfection in our journey of faith, we all of us stumble and fall sometimes. That’s just the way, unfortunately, it is in this fallen world. But that being the case, we have in … Continued
Today’s readings Someone reminded me that last year, I proclaimed that Lent to be the “Lentiest Lent that ever Lented!” Certainly we have just been through a very Lenty year, with the specter of a pandemic, the sadness of racial injustice … Continued
Today’s readings Heaven knows there are a lot of experts out there, or at least people who claim to be experts. That’s why blogs and comments posted on news stories and Facebook are so popular: everyone claims to know something … Continued
Today’s readings “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” In today’s gospel reading, Jesus has just been given a great complement and he responds to it kind of brusquely, or at least it seems that … Continued
Today’s readings Listen again to those words of hope from the Gospel I just read: “And I tell you, ask and you will receive;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives;and … Continued
Today’s readings The readings for these early days of Lent are focused on teaching us how to accomplish the various disciplines of Lent – which really are the various disciplines of the spiritual life. The whole point is that we … Continued
Today’s readings The prophet Isaiah and Jesus speak today about the great power of words. Isaiah speaks specifically of the power of God’s word, a word that will not return empty but will go out and accomplish the purpose for … Continued
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