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In today’s gospel passage, we encounter the Bethany family: siblings Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. We have met Martha and Mary before, in the well-known passage from Luke’s gospel (Luke 10:38-42) when Jesus and his disciples rest on the road to Jerusalem in the home of sisters Mary and Martha. Remember that Martha, doing all the…
What comes to mind when you think of the word “protester”? Regardless of what you may initially picture, there are many types of protesters, of course. There are antiwar protesters, Tea Party protesters, protesters for common-sense gun legislation and gun rights protesters. There are protesters for liberal causes and conservative causes and everything in between….
On this fifth Sunday in Lent, our thoughts turn to suffering. As they should since we are fast approaching Holy Week and the Walk of Sorrows. This is why the highly poetic words of the psalmist, so filled with joyful images, are jarring on this particular day. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, …
La historia del evangelio asignada para este domingo es comúnmente conocida como “Las tentaciones de Jesús”. Es en cierta medida inexplicable y tal vez misteriosa para nosotros que vivimos en este siglo. La fascinación con el solo pensamiento de hacer un pacto con el diablo se ha representado en las artes, desde la literatura a…
The terrible war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended in December 1995. The fighting between Serbs and Croats had set itself up along ethnic and religious lines and so deepened the divisions between the warring factions that it seemed impossible to imagine any type of peace, much less healing and reconciliation. A Franciscan priest began a…
An image is formed by these lectionary passages, most especially by the epistle and the gospel story, of a God with open arms ready to receive us in a loving embrace. This image is constant and unchanging. Past and future don’t exist in the eternal present of God’s embrace: God is always waiting; God is…
Hemos pasado de un año al otro, de la ternura de la Navidad y el esplendor de la Epifanía, a este tiempo en nuestro calendario litúrgico después de la Epifanía. Se han vivido días de especial ánimo en estos últimos meses y los días se van alargando—cada día hay más luz. La visión de Dios…
Hoy veamos una de las historias principales del Antiguo Testamento, y consideremos cómo su personaje principal, cuyo nombre es José, cambia de ser un engreído a alguien que da el regalo de la vida. En el nombre de Dios: Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo. Lo que acabamos de oír del Génesis: los hermanos de José…
Considere su condición en la vida. ¿Se encuentra relativamente bien económicamente? ¿Está seguro, con abundancia de posesiones materiales? ¿A menudo sale a comer afuera, a veces, en restaurantes caros? ¿Tiene un hogar confortable? ¿Disfruta de la vida? ¿Se piensa bien de usted en su iglesia, vecindario y comunidad? ¿Tiene mucho en qué esperar? Probablemente la…
Odds are that a quick scan of the commentaries and preaching resources written on Luke, chapter 13, would produce a common refrain: “Be careful with this passage!” The warning is a good one, as this passage causes the faithful to ask some of the most common and complicated questions in all of Christendom. They are…
While it may be hard to imagine what life for Abraham was like, or even whether he was only a patriarchal ideal in the Old Testament, a careful reading of the passage from Genesis connects us to him with a contemporary question: how can we see God’s promises at work in the world and be…
Humanity vs. the Devil. It’s a tale as old as time. You might know one such story that starts like this: “It’s a story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. “Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead—or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunderstorm around Marshfield, [Massachusetts,]…
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