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Saturday of the Second Week in Lent
Today’s readings That Jesus would welcome sinners and eat with them is obviously a huge deal. In those days, it was thought that associating with sinners made one complicit in the sin, or at least showed approval of the sin; so the audacity of such an action was sinful in and of itself, at least…
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Friday of the Second Week in Lent
Today’s readings In the readings this week, I’ve been noticing a lot of foreshadowing. How many of you know what foreshadowing is? It’s a literary device that you seen in the early part of some stories, that gives us a hint at the end of the story. Usually you don’t notice the foreshadowing until you…
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Friday of the First Week in Lent
Today’s readings It would be so much easier if we could define our own righteousness. If we could choose who to reach out to and who to ignore, life would be good, wouldn’t it? If we could hold grudges against some people and only have to forgive some people, we would easily consider ourselves justified.…
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Thursday of the First Week in Lent
Today’s readings During this first week of Lent, our Liturgies of the Word are teaching us about the Lenten disciplines: fasting, almsgiving and prayer. On Tuesday, we heard the Lord’s prayer, and today we hear the prayer of Esther and Jesus’ injunction to persistence in prayer. I love the story of Esther, and as I…
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The First Sunday in Lent
Today’s readings The devil wants us to forget who we are. That we are created good by a God who loves us more than anything; that we can never fall far from grace if we stay close to Jesus; that we are sons and daughters of God who have the freedom to love and grow…
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Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Today’s readings “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.” A few months ago, I had a reaction to my cholesterol meds: hives, itching, severe joint pain. At first it was just the hives and I dismissed it, thinking it was a bug bite. But they quickly spread. I was…
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Ash Wednesday
Where do you see yourself in forty days? I’m sure many of us have had to answer some version of that annoying question when applying for a job. You know: “Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years?” But I ask that question today because I think we have to decide what getting…
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Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In this section of the Gospel, Jesus is taking the time to set things right about what it means to be rich and famous. Yesterday, we had the Gospel reading about the rich young man. As you might remember, Jesus looked at the young man and loved him, and then challenged him to…
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Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees in the Gospel reading, and it’s important to understand that he was not giving them marriage counseling, because that’s not what they asked for. They seemed to be asking a question about divorce and whether or not it should be allowed, but what they were really trying…
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Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Arguing does nothing for our faith. Whether we are arguing about domestic or even trivial things with the people we should be loving, or arguing about something with a person on the internet we’ve never met, arguing is useless. Arguing closes us off to the truth and to the call to charity, so…
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