Fifth Sunday of lent
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE C JOHN 8:1-11 (Isaiah 43:1-21; Psalm 126:1-6; Philippians 3:8-14) On the fifth Sunday of Lent, the cycle of readings from the Gospel of Luke takes a detour through the Gospel of John. The story of the woman caught in adultery with its theme of repentance and forgi...Read full story »
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Fourth Sunday of Lent
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE C LUKE 15:1-3,11-32 (Joshua 5:9a, 10-12; Psalm 34:2-7; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21) The fifteenth chapter of Luke's gospel is the Lost and Found section of his gospel. A major theme of Luke's theology is repentance and forgiveness. The three stories or parables that co...Read full story »
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Third Sunday of Lent
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE C LUKE 13:1-9 (Exodus3:l-8a, 13-15; Psalm 103;1-4,6-8,11; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6,10-12) Jesus is engaged in his Galilean ministry of teaching and healing. Bystanders told him that some of their fellow Galileans had recently been in Jerusalem, where Pontius Pilate, a...Read full story »
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Second Sunday of Lent
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE C LUKE 9:28b-36 (Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18;; Psalm 27:1, 7-8, 13-14; Philippians 3:17-4:1) The Liturgy places the story of the transfiguration of Jesus on the Second Sunday of the Lenten season. Perhaps at one time this placement was intended as a beacon of hope for...Read full story »
Thursday, February 18, 2016
First Sunday of Lent
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE C LUKE 4:1-13 (Deuteronomy 4:6-10; Psalm 91:1-2, 10-15; Romans 10:8-13) The gospel reading for the first Sunday of Lent is the story of the temptation of Jesus. That Jesus was tempted in his human nature is a tradition embedded in all four gospels and in the New T...Read full story »
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C LUKE 5:1-11 (Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8: Psalm 1-5, 7-8; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11) The gathering of disciples was much in fashion in intertestamental times, that is, a century or two before and after the birth of Jesus. The great scribes before and after Jesus had...Read full story »
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C LUKE 4:21-30 (Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19; Psalm 71:1-6, 15, 17; 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13) Last Sunday’s gospel reading included Jesus’ first visit to his hometown, Nazareth of Galilee. On the Sabbath this faithful Jew went to synagogue just as...Read full story »
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C LUKE 1:1-4; 4:14-21 (8:2-6, 8-10; Psalm 19:8-10, 15; 1 Corinthians 12:12-30) This Sunday’s gospel has two parts. The first part is a preface or prologue. In the prologue Luke notes that “many have undertaken to put together a narrative of th...Read full story »
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C JOHN 2:1-11 (Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 96:1-3, 7-10; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11) An important aspect of the theology of the Gospel of John is a theme of replacement/perfection. Some feature of Old Testament law, or custom, or ritual is replaced or perfected by J...Read full story »
Thursday, January 14, 2016
The Baptism of the Lord - Jan. 8, 2016
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD, CYCLE C LUKE 3:15-16, 21-22 (Isaiah 40:1-5; Ps. 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-30; Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7) The baptism to which Jesus submitted during the ministry of John the Baptizer was not the sacrament of baptism. The sacrament of baptism is believed to have been instit...Read full story »
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
