Mar 15, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Live humbly before Almighty God and He will bless your life. March 15, 2022 Isaiah 1:2–4,16–20 | Matthew 23:1–12 | Psalm 50:7-15,22-23Psalm 50:23We can offer to GOD our sacrifices:We make sacrifices, offerings, vows and pledges and as long...
Mar 14, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 I give my life freely to God. March 14, 2022 Daniel 9:3–10 | Luke 6:27–38 | Psalm 79:1–9The Gospel Luke 6:27-38 is one I am very familiar with in my spiritual journey because it is one I struggle with the most. In my life, I am often treated...
Mar 13, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 “How can I keep from singing?” March 13, 2022 Genesis 15:1-12,17-18 | Philippians 3:17-4:1 | Luke 13:31-35 | Psalm 27 Of all the readings assigned for this 2nd Sunday of Lent, the one & only thing that kept drawing me back was this...
Mar 12, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 “…pray for those who persecute you…” March 12, 2022 Deuteronomy 26:16–19 | Matthew 5:43–48 | Psalm 119:1–8Scripture Matthew 5:43-48 “…pray for those who persecute you…”How easy it is to pray for ourselves or for those who don’t persecute...
Mar 11, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 We should not be afraid of our shortcomings March 11, 2022 Ezekiel 18:21–28 | Matthew 5:20–26 | Psalm 130I am guilty of calling people fools. And worse. The readings set for today call to mind that “sin” (what one priest told me is “missing...
Mar 10, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Ask, search, and knock. March 10, 2022 Esther (Apocrypha) 14:1–6,12–14 | Matthew 7:7–12 | Psalm 138I imagine that we have all faced crises in our lives and floundered, flailed about, or sunk into some state of despair as we dealt with the...
Mar 9, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Running away March 9, 2022 Jonah 3:1–10 | Luke 11:29–32 | Psalm 51:11–18Scripture readings assigned for today focus on the story of Jonah. If you haven’t heard the story for a while, let me remind you…when the word of the Lord first came to...
Mar 8, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Moving forward, in tune with the music of God March 8, 2022 Isaiah 55:6–11 | Matthew 6:7–15 | Psalm 34:15–22When reading today’s scripture many words jumped out at me- seek, call, return, and God will do the rest. But as I thought I realized...
Mar 7, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Can you teach an old dog new tricks? March 7, 2022 Leviticus 19:1–2,11–18 | Matthew 25:31–46 | Psalm 19:7–14A not-so-easy read…Psalm 19:7–14Having read and re-read this psalm, I profess an utter inability to grasp its overall message at...
Mar 6, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 What did Jesus do for forty days? March 6, 2022 Deuteronomy 26:1-11 | Romans 10:8b-13 | Luke 4:1-13 | Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16What did Jesus do during his forty days in the wilderness? He had just been baptized and had been declared God’s son and...
Mar 5, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Spread the love of Jesus to others March 5, 2022 Isaiah 58:9b–14 | Luke 5:27–32 | Psalm 86:1–11Luke 5:27-32In this gospel reading, we learn of a tax collector for the Roman Empire named Levi. Jesus walks by Levi and tells him to follow Him....
Mar 4, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 “Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.” March 4, 2022 Isaiah 58:1–9a | Matthew 9:10–17 | Psalm 51:1–10Where can I go this Lent to learn a lot more about mercy...
Mar 3, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 Preparing for the paths God will give us to walk in the year ahead. March 3, 2022 Deuteronomy 30:15–20 | Luke 9:18–25 | Psalm 1In the collect for this second day of Lent we ask our Lord to direct us in all we do, that our works may begin,...
Mar 2, 2022 | Lenten Blog 2022
Home > Lenten Blog 2022 I’ll take one giant slice of Humble Pie, please. March 2, 2022 Joel 2:1-2,12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12 | 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 | Psalm 103 or 103:8-14As I read the Ash Wednesday lectionary for 2022, I couldn’t help but to...
Dec 25, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Ponderings on Christmas Day December 25, 2021 Isaiah 62:6-12 | Titus 3:4-7 |Luke 2:(1-7)8-20 | Psalm 97 “…But Mary treasured all these words, and pondered them in her heart.” Luke’s lyrical account of the Birth of Jesus, and its reference...
Dec 24, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Live fully into this love relationship with God. December 24, 2021 Isaiah 9:2-7 | Titus 2:11-14 | Luke 2:1-14(15-20) | Psalm 96 Today’s readings proclaim God’s gift of divine love that has been, is, and always will be with us. To start us...
Dec 23, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 “His Name is John” December 23, 2021 Psalm 25: 1-14 | Malachi 3:1-5 | Luke 1:57-66 A controversy. Elizabeth and then her husband Zechariah find themselves being challenged by some traditionalist priests over what to name their child. What’s...
Dec 22, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Mary voices radical humility December 22, 2021 Psalm 113 or Psalm 122 | 1 Samuel 1:19-28 | Luke 1:46-56 As a chorister, I grew up singing the Magnificat, the song of Mary, whenever we did Evensong. I still sing it every Sunday at my church...
Dec 21, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Love Story December 21, 2021 Psalm 33:1-5, 20-22 | Song of Solomon 2:8-14 | Luke 1:39-45 Don’t you love a great story? The men of Theology on Tap have been talking a lot about stories this past year. We’ve focused our attention on...
Dec 20, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Notice the miracles in the smallest of changes. December 20, 2021 Psalm 24, Isaiah 7:10-14; Luke 1:26-38 “The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it.” Psalm 24 proclaims the majesty and wonder of God and all His creation. I most...
Dec 19, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Restore Us December 19, 2021 Micah 5:2-5a | Hebrews 10:5-10 | Luke 1:39-45 (46-55) |Canticle 15 (or 3) or Psalm 80:1-7 The birth of Christ brought a much-needed light into the world. Each year our collective Christmas tradition includes...
Dec 18, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Fall Down on Your Knees. Fall Down on Your Knees. December 18, 2021 Psalm 25:1-14 | Malachi 3:1-5 | Luke 1:57-66 I’m going off script — my apologies for not writing about today’s Advent readings. Because I want to share with you...
Dec 17, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Selah…Selah…Selah… Bask in God’s presence and love December 17, 2021 Psalm 67 | Isaiah 56:1-8 | John 5:33-36 Psalm 67 – Partial quote “May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah” “Let the nations...
Dec 16, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 “Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” December 16, 2021 Psalm 30 | Isaiah 54:1-10 | Luke 7:24-30 In the season of Avent, we begin our liturgical year and look forward to the coming joy of Christmas. We celebrate...
Dec 15, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 The Work of Christmas December 15, 2021 Psalm 85:8-13 | Isaiah 45:5-8(9-17)18-25 | Luke 7:9-23 I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. Isaiah 45: 5 These words are a continuing refrain in the 45th chapter of...
Dec 14, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Imagine a world without shame. December 14, 2021 Psalm 34:1-8 | Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 | Matthew 21:28-32 Reading today’s Psalm, two sections jumped out at me. The first was line 5: “Look upon him and be radiant, and let not your faces be...
Dec 13, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 “You’re not the boss of me.” December 13, 2021 Psalm 25:3-8 | Numbers 24:2-7,15-17a | Matthew 21:23-27 When trying to find inspiration for this blog assignment I found these 3 lines that kept bugging me and I had to figure out why: And when...
Dec 12, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 “Is a puzzlement.” December 12, 2021 Zephaniah 3:14-20 | Philippians 4:4-7 | Luke 3:7-18 | Canticle 9 Usually I enjoy puzzles: word, number, logic, jigsaw, a good mystery. If I’m to be honest, I waste a lot of time solving them. But the...
Dec 11, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 “Happy are those who saw you and were adorned with your love!” December 11, 2021 Psalm 80:1-3,14-18, Sirach 48:1-11; Matthew 17:9-13 Well, gosh I want to be happy, I sure would like to be adorned with God’s love…how do I get me some of that?...
Dec 10, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 God will walk the path with you December 10, 2021 Isaiah 48:17-18 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you for your own good, who leads you in the way you should go. The above words...
Dec 9, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Every one of us can be a Saint Nicholas December 9, 2021 Psalm 145:1-4,8-13, Isaiah 41:13-20; Matthew 11:7-15 Advent is the season during which we prepare for the coming of the Great King, the Holy One of Israel. And most of us are pretty...
Dec 8, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 I knew I was listened to, a sacred listening that required no actual words. December 8, 2021 Psalm 103:1-10 | Isaiah 40:25-31 | Matthew 11:28-30 Growing up, I was welcomed at the neighborhood Catholic church, or at least I felt I was,...
Dec 7, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Maybe you are a shepherd. December 7, 2021 Psalm 50:7-15 | Amos 5:18-24 | Matthew 18:12-14 Here’s a familiar passage that most of us have heard many times- the story of the Good Shepherd. I’d like to bring it into a modern setting. A teacher...
Dec 6, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 God is with us. December 6, 2021 Psalm 85:8-13 | Isaiah 35:1-10 | Luke 5:17-26 I am humbled by the scriptures for today. Each one is a description of how God made his presence known to his people. And what a perfect Advent message. Emmanuel,...
Dec 5, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Love is contagious. December 5, 2021 Baruch 5:1-9 | or Malachi 3:1-4 | Philippians 1:3-11 | Luke 3:1-6 | Canticle 4 or 16 Paul to the Philippians: And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full...
Dec 4, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 The goodness and majesty of God. December 4, 2021 Psalm 147:1-12 | Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 | Matthew 9:35 — 10:1,5-8 As a teenager I often felt that many Bible readings were harsh and frightening. However, over time, I discovered inspiring...
Dec 3, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 “The deaf hear…” “The blind see…” December 3, 2021 Psalm 27:1-6, 17-18 | Isaiah 29:17-24 | Matthew 9:27-31 I turned 70 this past summer. And I’m still trying to wrap my mind around this reality. I find myself worrying about my memory. What...
Dec 2, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Dad is my cornerstone. December 2, 2021 Psalm 118:19-24 | Isaiah 26:1-6 | Matthew 7:21-27 When I think about a cornerstone in my life, besides Christ, I would have to say that my Dad is my cornerstone. Dad was everything to me, and when he...
Dec 1, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Psalm 23 – A Psalm of David “The Lord is my shepherd…” December 1, 2021 Psalm 23 | Isaiah 25:6-9 | Matthew 15:29-39 I like to think of things in context, I also like to research interesting words and know what the definition is in the...
Nov 30, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 There is a sense of hopefulness while we wait. November 30, 2021 Psalm 72:1-8 | Isaiah 11:1-10 | Luke 10:21-24 I look forward to Advent. Without fail, every year, I am eager for Advent to begin. It might be my favorite time of year. I like...
Nov 29, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 Living into “The Present House of God” November 29, 2021 Psalm 122: Song of Praise and Prayer for Jerusalem;Isaiah 2:1-5: The Future House of God;Matthew 8:5-13: Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Servant As I have done for over 20 years, I stepped...
Nov 28, 2021 | Advent Blog 2021
Home > Advent Blog 2021 There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars… November 28, 2021 Jeremiah 33:14-16 | 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 | Luke 21:25-36 | Psalm 25:1-9 It is the first Sunday in Advent. How are you feeling? This has been another year of...
Apr 4, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Experience the unimaginable April 4, 2021 Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 25:6-9 | 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 or Acts 10:34-43John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8 | Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 This is the Lord’s doing,and it is marvellous in our eyes.– (Psalm...
Apr 3, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 This Easter, a homecoming. April 3, 2021 This photo by unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA Genesis 1:1-2:4a [The Story of Creation] | Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13 [The Flood] | Genesis 22:1-18 [Abraham’s sacrifice of...
Apr 2, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Light through the Darkness April 2, 2021 Isaiah 52:13-53:12 |Hebrews 10:16-25 or Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 | John 18:1-19:42 | Psalm 22 Growing up in an Irish/Catholic household, Good Friday was spent eating very little and being in church. I...
Apr 1, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” April 1, 2021 Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 | John 13:1-17, 31b-35 | Psalm 116:1, 10-17 In reflecting on the story of Jesus washing his disciples’...
Mar 31, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 The good things are ahead. March 31, 2021 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Hebrews 12:1-3 | John 13:21-32 | Psalm 70 In a recent sermon Rev. Tanya mentioned that profound things often come from the children. It reminded me of a question that was asked in...
Mar 30, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Become children of light March 30, 2021 Isaiah 49:1-7 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 | John 12:20-36 | Psalm 71:1-14 “Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you...
Mar 29, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Filled with hope and the light of Christ March 29, 2021 Isaiah 42:1-9 | Hebrews 9:11-15 | John 12:1-11 | Psalm 36:5-11 Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace. What...
Mar 28, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Two different worlds at once. March 28, 2021 Isaiah 50:4-9a | Philippians 2:5-11 | Mark 14:1-15:47 or Mark 15:1-39, [40-47] | Psalm 31:9-16 One of the most amazing and wondrous experiences of my life happened several years ago while hiking...
Mar 27, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God, Diana Ross and Caiaphas on Finding Home March 27, 2021 Ezekiel 37:21–28 | John 11:45–53 | Psalm 85:1–7 I first read the selections of readings for Saturday, the Fifth Week of Lent, a couple of weeks back. While procrastinating the...
Mar 26, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 From jeremiad to joy March 26, 2021 Jeremiah 20:7-13 | John 10:31-42 | Psalm 18:1-7 How “down in the mouth” was Jeremiah, author of today’s first reading? So down, he inspired the modern word “jeremiad,” which means “a prolonged mournful...
Mar 25, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 I feel something new: hope. March 25, 2021 Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS: “Annunciation Quilt” Isaiah 7:10-14 | Psalm 45 or Psalm 40:5-10 or Canticle 15 (or 3) | Hebrews 10:4-10 | Luke 1:26-38 Some years it feels strange and jarring to celebrate...
Mar 24, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Truth March 24, 2021 Daniel 3:14–20,24–28 | John 8:31–42 | Canticle [2] or 13 The first couple of lines from John 8:31-42 made me think about how often we are prisoners – slaves even – of our own beliefs. We even suffer for those beliefs and...
Mar 23, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 A Very Snaky Predicament March 23, 2021 Numbers 21:4–9 | John 8:21–30 | Psalm 102:15–22 Today’s Old Testament reading from the Book of Numbers recounts a scene from the Israelites 40-year journey through the wilderness following their...
Mar 22, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 On Forgiveness March 22, 2021 Susanna [1–9,15–29,34–40],41-62 | John 8:1–11 or John 8:12–20 | Psalm 23 When I read these scriptures about justice, what came immediately to mind was our study in Adult Formation of Chapter 1 of Seven Last...
Mar 21, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God is with us though prayer. March 21, 2021 Jeremiah 31:31-34 | Hebrews 5:5-10 | John 12:20-33 | Psalm 51:1-13 Psalm 51:1-13 talks about all kinds of things we have done wrong in God’s sight and how we want to make them right. Prayer is one...
Mar 20, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God’s spirit is infinite. March 20, 2021 Jeremiah 11:18–20 | John 7:37–52 | Psalm 7:6–11 John 7:37–52 “On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and...
Mar 19, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God is focused on being faithful to us March 19, 2021 2 Samuel 7:4,8-16 | Romans 4:13-18 | Luke 2:41-52 | Psalm 89:1-29 or 89:1-4, 26-29 For I am persuaded that your love is established for ever;you have set your faithfulness firmly in the...
Mar 18, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Worshiping the Golden Calf March18, 2021 Exodus 32:7–14 | John 5:30–47 | Psalm 106:6–7,19–23 They have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it. I suppose having grown up with the Charlton Heston...
Mar 17, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Reach out and share March 17, 2021 Isaiah 49:8–15 | Psalm 145:8–19 | John 5:19–29 They shall feed along the ways,on all the bare heights shall be their pasture;they shall not hunger or thirst,neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike...
Mar 16, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God March 16, 2021 Ezekiel 47:1–9,12 | John 5:1–18 | Psalm 46:1–8 Water flows through these readings, sometimes gently and sometimes with a powerful rush, but always moving, not stagnant....
Mar 15, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 A Short Testament, a poem by Anne Porter March 15, 2021 Isaiah 65:17–25 | John 4:43–54 | Psalm 30:1–6,11–13 Whatever harm I may have doneIn all my life in all your wide creationIf I cannot repair itI beg you to repair it, And then there are...
Mar 14, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God so loved the world March 14, 2021 Numbers 21:4-9 | Ephesians 2:1-10 | John 3:14-21 | Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal...
Mar 13, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Steadfast Love March 13, 2021 Hosea 6:1–6 | Luke 18:9–14 | Psalm 51:15–20 New Year’s resolutions for me last about two hours; my Lenten disciplines may be maintained for two days before I forget or give up. My self-discipline is sorely...
Mar 12, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God is speaking to me. Can’t let this one go to voicemail! March 12, 2021 Hosea 14:1–9 | Psalm 81:8–14 | Mark 12:28–34 Hosea 14:1-9 An Old Testament prophet, Hosea – Hebrew for “help” or “salvation” – lived around 750 BC in the kingdom of...
Mar 11, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 God ask us to be with Him March 11, 2021 Jeremiah 7:23–28 | Luke 11:14–23 | Psalm 95:6–11 Jeremiah was a bullfrog.Was a good friend of mine?Never understood a single word he saidBut we always had a mighty sad time. When I received the...
Mar 10, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Raising my ‘feisty quotient’ March 10, 2021 Deuteronomy 4:1–2,5–9 | Matthew 5:17–19 | Psalm 78:1–6 For some reason, my first pass at these readings raised my ‘feisty quotient.’ In the Old Testament reading, Moses urges us to “make [the...
Mar 9, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Could lovingly forgiving someone else enable me to love myself? March 9, 2021 Song of the Three Young Men 2–4,11–20a | Matthew 18:21–35 | Psalm 25:3–10 Matthew 18:21-35 Peter came and said to Jesus, “Lord, if another member of the...
Mar 8, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 ’Wash, and be clean‘ March 8, 2021 2 Kings 5:1–15b | Luke 4:23–30 | Psalm 42:1–7 It’s the imagery of water that catches my attention; how tempting is that thought? That we can dive under, feel the cool energy, and emerge into the sunlight,...
Mar 7, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Rules and Commandments March 7, 2021 Exodus 20:1-17 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 | John 2:13-22 | Psalm 19 Throughout the many stages of life one meets the rules prescribed for that age and that moment. It is our response and adherence to these...
Mar 6, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Our trials are His way of perfecting our patience. March 6, 2021 Micah 7:14–15,18–20 | Luke 15:11–32 | Psalm 103:1–4(5–8)9–12 While reading the gospel for today, I was reminded of one of my favorite reflections: Love Ever Gives, Forgives,...
Mar 5, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Who saw that coming? March 5, 2021 Genesis 37:3–4,12–28 | Matthew 21:33–43 | Psalm 105:16–22 At first sight we when we look at the Gospel reading and the first reading from Genesis, we can think to ourselves, what is going on here? Or maybe,...
Mar 4, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Thursday in the Second Week of Lent March 4, 2021 Jeremiah 17:5–10 | Luke 16:19–31 | Psalm 1 I hope you all had a chance to read the lesson from the Gospel of Luke appointed for today. It is one in a string of parables Jesus shared with his...
Mar 3, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 “How about love. Measure in Love.” March 3, 2021 Jeremiah 18:1–11,18–20 | Matthew 20:17–28 | Psalm 31:9–16 “My times are in your hand”– Psalm 31:15 390 The number of days since I have had my hair cut357 The number of days since I...
Mar 2, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Seek Justice and Rescue the Oppressed March 2, 2021 Isaiah 1:2–4,16–20 | Matthew 23:1–12 | Psalm 50:7–15,22–24 We are spending the winter in Georgia as we have for many years. As has been much in the news, Georgia has a long history of Black...
Mar 1, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Sliding over into the passenger seat and letting God drive. March 1, 2021 Daniel 9:3–10 | Luke 6:27–38 | Psalm 79:1–9 Lent means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To some, it means “giving up” something…Usually...
Feb 28, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Break open (your heart) and never close again to the rest of the world. February 28, 2021 Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 | Romans 4:13-25 | Mark 8:31-38 | Psalm 22:22-30 “He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to...
Feb 27, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 How can we accept people whose thoughts and actions are antithetical to us? February 27, 2021 Deuteronomy 26:16–19 | Matthew 5:43–48 | Psalm 119:1–8 Wow, Jesus really cuts to the chase when he tells us to love our enemies in Matthew 5:43-48....
Feb 26, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 What is the path to the kingdom of heaven? February 26, 2021 Ezekiel 18:21–28 | Matthew 5:20–26 | Psalm 130 My spaghetti comes in a box. (I hope you intrepid souls who make your own pasta will bear with my analogy.) When my spaghetti comes...
Feb 25, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 My eyes smiled at hers, above our respective masks, and she reached for me. February 25, 2021 Esther (Apocrypha) 14:1–6,12–14 | Matthew 7:7–12 | Psalm 138 “When I called, you answered me,You Increased my strength within me…The Lord will...
Feb 24, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 “The Field of Blood” February 24, 2021 Acts 1:15-26 | Philippians 3:13-21 | John 15:1,6-16 | Psalm 15 Acts 1: “… (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his...
Feb 23, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Seeking reconciliation is inextricably linked with a will to understand February 23, 2021 Isaiah 55:6–11 | Matthew 6:7–15 | Psalm 34:15–22 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered...
Feb 22, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 “The fear of the Lord is clean and endures forever.” February 22, 2021 Leviticus 19:1–2,11–18 | Matthew 25:31–46 | Psalm 19:7–14 The fear of the Lord is cleanand endures for ever;the judgments of the Lord are trueand righteous altogether....
Feb 21, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 So what is this Lent? February 21, 2021 Robert and Georgie Girl, 1968 Genesis 9: 8-17 | Psalm 25: 1-9 | 1 Peter 3: 18-22 | Mark 1: 9-15 Lent for me is a time of reflection. Some days are filled with joy. Others, with despair. We...
Feb 20, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Preparing a Banquet February 20, 2021 Isaiah 58:9b–14 | Luke 5:27–32 | Psalm 86:1–11 We’re only four days into Lent – a time of solemnity and abstinence. But today’s gospel has me thinking about parties. You remember parties… where people...
Feb 19, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Start conversations. Ask questions. Explain why. February 19, 2021 Isaiah 58:1–9a | Matthew 9:10–17 | Psalm 51:1–10 Might these days of Covid-19 during Lent of 2021 occasionally echo those befuddling days when – instead of fasting in...
Feb 18, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 But who do you say that I am? February 18, 2021 Deuteronomy 30:15–20 |Luke 9:18–25 | Psalm 1 Luke 9: 18-25 In The Gospel for my blog entry, Jesus asks his disciples two questions; “Who do the crowds say that I am?” and “But...
Feb 17, 2021 | Lenten Blog
Home > Lenten Blog 2021 Matthew 6: 1, 5-6 February 17, 2021 Joel 2:1-2,12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12 | 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 | Psalm 103:8-14 Matthew 6:1, 5-6 Jesus said, “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by...
Jan 6, 2021 | Christmas Blog
O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,...
Jan 5, 2021 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 100 | Heb. 11:32-12:2 | John 1:43-51 Run Beloved, Run – a poem based on Hebrews 12:1-3 Hebrews 12:1-3Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with...
Jan 4, 2021 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 98:1-2,8-9 O sing to the Lord a new song,for he has done marvelous things.His right hand and his holy armhave gotten him victory.The Lord has made known his victory;he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations. Let the floods clap their hands;let...
Jan 3, 2021 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 84 | Luke 2:41-52 | Jeremiah 31:7-14 | Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19 In Psalm 84, the Psalmist uses the words, “my soul has a desire and longing for the courts of the Lord” – how all of us in 2020 can relate! It has been nearly 10 months since many of us have been on...
Jan 2, 2021 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 98:1-5 | 1 John 2:22-29 | John 1:19-28 I have always loved the idea of “joyful noise”. I have always thought of joyful noise as the perfect description of celebration and praise to our Lord. Normally, this time of year is filled with many opportunities to share...
Jan 1, 2021 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 8 | Exodus 34:1-8 | Romans 1:1-7 | Luke 2:15-21 After reading the scriptures that Mother Tanya had given to me for the 1st day of the 1st month of the New Year (2021). When I first read them it took me a couple of minutes to process exactly what I was reading,...
Dec 31, 2020 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 96:1-2,11-13 | 1 John 2:18-21 | John 1:1-18 O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Let the heavens be glad…. It has been said that when you sing a hymn at...
Dec 30, 2020 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 96:7-10 | 1 John 2:12-17 | Luke 2:36-40 The week between Christmas and New Years is unlike any other in the year. The anticipation and preparations of Advent are complete, Christmas Day rituals are done, and a hiatus descends, one that marks the end of a sacred...
Dec 29, 2020 | Christmas Blog
An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in an dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” Matthew 2:13-18 We have spent the better part of...
Dec 28, 2020 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 92 | Exodus 33:12-23 | 1 John 1:1-9 | John 21:9b-24 “God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5 Light spilled out of the window of a house on Court House Lane, beckoning me during an evening walk in November. Inside, a tree was aglow. Any...
Dec 27, 2020 | Christmas Blog
Psalm 147 | Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7 | Psalm 147 Anyone who knows me knows that I am truly an outdoor, adventurous person… I love God’s creations. I have climbed mountains; sailed the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific; Dipped my toes in the Indian Ocean and the Sea of...
