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“… Kindle the faith of the people you have made your own … that all may grasp and rightly understand …” These words are from the opening prayer of Mass on this Sunday after Easter. The Gospel is the episode where the Apostle Thomas, unwilling to believe the other disciples…
I love 1 Cor 5:6-8, one of the selections for the second reading of Easter day Mass. It is all about feasting. Yum! It is about yeast leavening dough — an image of how the kingdom grows, slowly, but inexorably, but also an image of how we gradually grow in…
Each Holy Week we hear two accounts of the Passion of the Lord. On Good Friday we hear the passion account from the Gospel of John. On Palm Sunday we hear the passion account from the year’s lectionary cycle, this year the Gospel of Mark. We all know the spiritual,…
“Glory” is a visible manifestation of God’s presence revealed to us. In today’s Gospel when Jesus prays, “Father, glorify your name,” a voice from heaven thunders: “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” The context is Jesus’ impending passion, and Jesus drives the lesson home by telling those…
Much of the following blog was written shortly after the cold snap and significant snowfall we got in February. For some reason, it didn’t present a conclusion that felt quite right. Recently, during prayer, the tracks in the snow were illuminated for me. After the two snowfalls that carpeted the…
Several days of bright sunshine are the perfect invitation to get outdoors, even if the wind still carries the chill of late winter. I had accepted the invitation and was returning to the house after picking up some trash that littered the roadside. As I approached the front door my…
I still remember years ago seeing my first John 3:16 bumper sticker. Of course we cradle Catholics usually don’t know our Scriptures by heart, so after I had seen a couple more of these, I went to my Bible to see what this was about. Today in our Cycle B…
These thoughts are based on Cycle B, our 2021 lectionary cycle. This Sunday’s Gospel is the account of how Jesus cleansed the temple, driving out the merchants selling things there. (Some Masses, where those preparing for Easter sacraments are present, may use the Cycle A Gospel.) I was thinking about…
I always feel sorry for preachers on this Cycle B second Sunday of Lent, because the first Hebrew Scripture reading is the story of Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac. It’s a story that makes God look bad (why would God ask such a thing? Is God a tester?) and Abraham…
Lent might seem a somewhat severe season, but our readings today are positive and uplifting. The opening prayer might be a purpose statement for Lent — that we may grow in understanding of the riches hidden in Christ…. In the brief Gospel, Jesus leaves the desert to announce to us…
