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Earthquakes, fortunately mostly just small ones, were regular occurrences in California where I lived for 15 years. Matthew’s Gospel uses earthquakes like exclamation points! When Jesus dies, the earth quaked, rocks were split… (27:51). In our Easter Gospel, when the women approach the tomb to look for Jesus’ body, there…
This is not the Lenten season any of us would have expected. Annually Lent is a time of grace, a time we choose to do some serious spiritual housecleaning. As one homilist put it: it is the spring training of our spiritual lives. A time to brush up on basic…
Does it seem odd that during Lent, on the 2nd Sunday of Lent, we hear the Gospel about the transfiguration of Jesus? In that story, Peter, James and John are given an energizing and inspiring vision of the Lord in glory. Today we read the Passion account of Matthew where…
It was only March 3, but the daffodils were already pushing up through the ground: tender green shoots. Four days later and even though the temperatures had hovered near freezing for several nights, buds had appeared. A warmer winter and a south-facing flower bed had convinced these hardy harbingers of…
In the film classic The Wizard of Oz, after the tornado dumps Dorothy’s house on the wicked witch of the East, the Munchkin coroner sings: I thoroughly examined her, And she’s not only merely dead, She’s really most sincerely dead! I always chuckle when I hear this Sunday’s Gospel about…
You know how you’re out taking a walk and your mind is on a million and one things, when out of the corner of your eye you catch sight of something intriguing, but then you are already past it. Your brain, however, that amazing creation, scans through thousands, maybe millions…
A number of times we hear Gospel accounts about Jesus curing a blind person, and we hear one of them on this fourth Sunday of Lent. Sometimes the shorter version is read, but in the full version (Jn 9:1-41), we get to hear how the blind man’s understanding of Jesus…
The story about how Jesus meets a woman at a well is our Gospel today. Notice it is a well whose water is still, not flowing water like that from the Jordan River. And it is “Jacob’s well,” the spot where the Hebrew patriarch Jacob met the love of his…
Consider these examples: You start learning a language; you learn to say “that is delicious” — but you can’t say how you really experience the wonderful food because you don’t have the words. Or you have a life-changing experience, like falling in love, but it isn’t until you hear a…
We all learn, painfully sometimes, the wisdom contained in the little aphorism, all that glitters is not gold. On this first weekend of Lent, our readings direct us to look at temptation. The first (Hebrew Scripture) reading is the Adam and Eve sin story. Of course the first thing to…
