Go! for Lent: Exodus 4:10-13
One of the perceived obstacles to working with refugees and immigrants is language. “If we speak different languages, how will I ever connect?” In Rwanda last year, I visited a […]
It Is Not Often…, Lent 3 (A) – 2008
“Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’” It is not often that we find anyone in the gospels giving Jesus advice or telling him what to do. He […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – March 3, 2024
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Some Go On a Journey, Some Tend the Garden, Lent 4 (C) – 2001
[…] a journeyer or a gardener right now? Have you always been so? These are fruitful Lenten meditations. Now let us return to God, the One who is intensely interested in […]
Most of the Western United States…, Lent 3 (A) – 2002
[…] a thirst for acceptance and forgiveness and love for our parched lives. The season of Lent is a time of self-imposed drought that can help remind us that our deepest […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (C) – 2019
Exodus 3:1-15 Surely, surely, we are standing on holy ground. An ancient, well-worn story greets us this week: a bush alight that is never consumed and an eternally mysterious, divine […]
In Many Cultures of the World…, Lent 4 (A) – 2011
[…] in turn passing before his inspection. Any one of them might have made an excel lent king for the Lord’s people. Any one of them, that is, except for the […]
Pledge
[…] are most vulnerable, and live more gently on the Earth. What can you do? During Lent, reflect on the Pledge alone or in a group, with the help of the Reflection […]
Go! for Lent: Matthew 26:36
[…] the Father. It is a pattern: openness, prayer, openness, prayer. And in this season of Lent, it can become for us a pattern for our lives, for we too are […]
Go! for Lent: Luke 10:25-37
[…] our ideas about who is “other” or worthy or useful to God’s restoration project. This Lent, I’m drawn to a different point in the passage: Jesus’ final words to the […]
Bible Study: Lent 1 (C) – 2013
[…] to whom they owed their primary loyalty and allegiance. As we enter the season of Lent, it is worth reflecting on this. To what or to whom do you believe […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (A) – 2017
[…] Romans 5:1-11 Paul’s reflections on suffering, endurance, and hope are a timely reflection during the Lenten season, when many of us take a hard look at the brokenness of ourselves […]
Love Generously, Give Abundantly, Lent 5 (C) – 2013
[…] as the man who raised him. The time is short and the grief is p lentiful as they break bread together in Bethany. Scarcity and abundance are the twin themes […]
Choosing to Lose Paradise, Lent 1 (A) – 2014
[…] the closest by calling her his “Helpmeet,” meaning a helper who was meet, or equiva lent to him. God even walks in the Garden with them. What need could they […]
How Can These Things Be?, Lent 2 (A) – 2014
[…] if I tell you about heavenly things?” This is a question to meditate upon throughout Lent, a daily discipline in the dark of night that can lead us to the […]
Bible Study: Lent 1 (B) – 2018
Genesis 9:8-17 Since the time of humanity’s disobedience in the Garden, covenants have been the means by which we re-enter into relationship with God. It’s important to note that God’s […]
Bible Study: Lent 2 (B) – 2018
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Although Abraham and Sarah enacted their own solution in response to Sarah being unable to conceive a child (Abram had a child, Ishmael, with Hagar, Sarai’s slave-girl), […]
Bible Study: Lent 2 (B) – 2012
[…] loving God who journeys with him and has heard the cries of the afflicted. During Lent, we reflect on the very nature of God; the self-emptying, self-giving, eternally faithful and […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – 2018
Exodus 20:1-17 The recitation of the Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, will likely be familiar to listeners of this week’s Old Testament reading, and many might have images of a technicolor […]
Pre-Sanctified, Mass of the
[…] celebrated. In the Byzantine Rite, the liturgy of the pre-sanctified is used on weekdays during Lent (usually on Wednesdays and Fridays) when the eucharist is not celebrated. The liturgy of […]