Reflection for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sirach 27:30 – 28:7 (RM) or Genesis 50: 15-21 (RCL); Psalm 103; Romans 14: 7-9 (RM) or 1-12 (RCL); Matthew 18: 21-35. This is so, so hard. God, is this…
Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Exodus 32: 7-11, 13-14 (RM) or 7-14 (RCL); Psalm 51; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17; Luke 15: 1-32 or 1-10 (RM) or 1-10 (RCL) I was at work in the university…
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent C
Isaiah 43: 16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3: 8-14 (RM) or 4b-14 (RCL); John 8: 1-11 (RM) or John 12: 1-8 (RCL).We’re approaching Holy Week. Next Sunday is Passion Sunday, Palm…
True Forgiveness is Guilt Free
Joshua 5: 9-12; Psalm 34 (RM) Psalm 32 (RCL); 2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 (RM) 16-21 (RCL); Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32. Forgiveness is hard. Especially when it comes shrink-wrapped in guilt.…