Tag: Lent

  • March 2, 2009
    Last Sunday’s readings (the First Sunday of Lent for the Western Church) were stories of destruction turned into rescue and…

  • August 1, 2008
    “Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, ‘Surely we are not blind, are we?’ Jesus…

  • August 1, 2008
    This year our Lenten journey through the wilderness is not one that we walk alone. The persons who come face…

  • August 1, 2008
    The Catholic lectionary readings for the Second Sunday of Lent include the Transfiguration account, a reading many Protestant traditions heard…

  • August 1, 2008
    Mardi Gras. The phrase conjures images of drunken revelry and riotous carnality, tempered with a little voodoo carnivàle. Associated as…

  • August 1, 2008
    When we take too much pride in “family churches,” where neat, nuclear families dominate, we risk forgetting what Jesus did…