Thursday of the Third Week of Lent – The enemies of Jesus were desperate to find some way of discrediting him in the eyes of the common folk. They saw him as a threat to their power and position. A clear implication of Jesus’ argument against his enemies was that good can overpower evil. Do …
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent – Jesus was not a legalist. He healed people on the Sabbath, which the Pharisees said was breaking the law. But neither was he in fact a lawbreaker. Rather, he fulfilled in himself everything that God’s people had looked forward to for centuries. In Christ, God was giving …
St. Frances of Rome – Why did Jesus go against the conventional religion of his day and stress the importance of forgiving one another? He saw love as the ultimate bond in divine and human relationships. He taught that we cannot love God and hate our neighbor. Forgiveness is important because it clears the way …
St. John of God – We might be appalled to think that Jesus was not accepted by his own people. Are we certain that we do not possess some of these attitudes and ideas that are equally absurd? Imagine having separate water fountains from which to drink based on the color of your skin. Whom …
Third Sunday of Lent – What is it about our lifestyle that violates this temple that violates the commandments which were designed to keep this temple holy? What kinds of faults have we learned to tolerate and allowed to become part of our life? Lent is not about enduring some miserable discipline that we quickly …
Saturday of the Second Week of Lent – The Prodigal’s sin is quite obvious, and he gets full press in this story. Yet the other son is also a sinner but maybe not so obvious. We have never heard this story referred to as “the story of the ill-tempered, selfish son.” He could hide his …
Friday of the Second Week of Lent – We are expected to cultivate and manage this life in such a way that it bears good fruit, fruit that we can present to God the owner of our lives on the day of reckoning. Life itself is a gift and with the gift comes responsibility not …
St. Casimir – Informed by God’s word, sustained by our prayer, encouraged by one another and nourished by the Eucharist, let us ask for the grace to not be imprisoned in the bubble of self-centeredness but rather live generous and joyful lives aware of the consequences of selfishness and inaction. Bosom of Abraham or Hades …
St. Katharine Drexel – God reminds us to be loving people, but we are too worried about taking care of ourselves. He invites us to forgiveness, but revenge gets in the way. We are challenged to meet the needs of the lowly, but our needs take over. Lent is a great time to root out …
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent – A little boy attended Church with his grandfather one Sunday. Grandpa’s church had beautiful stained-glass windows. The child asked who the people in the windows are. Grandpa told his grandson that the people in the windows are saints. When he got home, the boy told mom and …
