The Fig Tree
Sunday Readings for Feb 28, 2016 the 3rd Sunday of Lent Some think Lent is a time for fasting. I see it as a time of feasting. I…
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Annoyances
“Don’t be angry with someone for every little thing he does wrong. Don’t do anything out of injured pride.” Sirach 10: 6 It’s the little annoying things…
The Transfiguration and The Cross
Sunday Readings for Feb 21, 2016 the 2nd Sunday in Lent Appearances can be deceiving. After all, Jesus was just another Galilean. His hands were the rough hands…
Here I Am, Send Me, Next Week, Maybe
“Here I am, “I said. “Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8) Lent is upon us and Advent is but a memory. The story of Jesus’s thirty three years has…
Why is Lent Forty Days?
Sunday Readings for Feb 14, 2016, the First Sunday in Lent In the English language, the special season before Easter is called “Lent.” The word comes from the…
Father Forgive Them
This marks my last of five Biblical meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries and 40 Days for Life, using Rosary Army’s Scriptural Rosary. In the Fifth Sorrowful Mystery meditation,…
High Adventure or Cautious Mediocrity?
Readings for Feb 7, 2016 the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Peter. Paul. Isaiah. Frodo Baggins. They have more in common than meets the eye. Of course there…
Come Away And Rest With Jesus
In today’s Gospel reading from Mark, the disciples have just returned from a teaching mission to the villages in the area where they were traveling with Jesus. They…
Why We Stone Prophets
Sunday Readings for Jan 31, the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time “In polite conversation, never bring up politics or religion.” That’s the advice I was given as a…
Scripture as Teacher
When we last left our hero (Jesus, of course), in my December 2015, Practical Steps to Fill Your Grace Well, New Evangelizers column, He was calling us to…