Lenten Reflections and Meditations

Lenten Reflections

Go! for Lent: Psalm 122

March 8, 2016

The Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, NY is one of my favorite places on earth. It is, for me, a “thin place” – a place where heaven and earth […]

Go! for Lent: Mark 10:52

March 3, 2016

Bartimaeus, the blind man of Jericho, had an incredible faith in Jesus and what He could do for him.  Imagine this man sitting on the floor, begging for help, money, […]

Go! for Lent: Luke 4:18-19

March 3, 2016

The meaning of this scripture passage for me is that it is Jesus’ statement of mission a way forward for Jesus and for us today.  It is used in my […]

Go! for Lent: Ruth 1:16

March 3, 2016

In the Old Testament, the book of Ruth comes to us like a precious gem following as it does numerous stories of war and conquest from the earlier books that […]

Go! for Lent: Mark 10:21

March 2, 2016

My brother and I started off the year making a pledge to each other. My brother turns 50 this year and I am his senior by only a mere 5 […]

Go! for Lent: Luke 14:21, 23

March 2, 2016

“Go out at once into the streets…” This scripture speaks to me because it is about action. It speaks to us of the expansiveness of God’s love, represented here in […]

Go! for Lent: John 15:15b-17

March 1, 2016

The fifth grade class at Trinity Episcopal Day School in Baton Rouge is intrigued by what it means to “go and bear fruit” as described in John 15:15b-17.  We discussed […]

Go! for Lent: Psalm 121:8

March 1, 2016

If Lent – and life – is a journey, then we can have no better words to be our companions on the way than the eight verses of Psalm 121. […]

Go! for Lent: 1 Samuel 3:1-9

March 1, 2016

These verses, especially: “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening”, resonate with me in a very direct way this Lent. I recently became a Postulant for the priesthood in The […]

Go! for Lent: Esther 4:16

February 28, 2016

The Book of Esther is one of my favorite stories of The Bible.  There’s a lot of learnings and reflections we can make from this novel.  Esther 4:16 is a […]

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