The Mystery of the Incarnation
Reflection for Palm Sunday / Passion Sunday C Readings: Isaiah 50: 4-7 (RM) or 4-9a (RCL); Psalm 22 (RM) or Psalm 31 (RCL); Philippians 2: 6-11 (RM) or 5-11 (RCL);…
Who Was the Adulterous Woman?
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent C Readings: 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).…
I Will Make You “Catchers of People”
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time C or the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Readings: Isaiah 6: 1-2, 3-8 (RM) or 1-8 (RCL); Psalm 138; I Corinthians 15: 1-11; Luke…
The Woman with No Name
Reflection for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time C / Second Sunday after EpiphanyReadings: Isaiah 62: 1-5 ; Psalm 96 (RM) or 36 (RCL); I Corinthians 12: 4-11 (RM) or…
Pregnant with the Future
Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Advent C Readings: Micah 5: 1-4a (RM) or 2-5a (RCL); Psalm 80; Hebrews 10: 5-10;Luke 1: 39-45 (RM), or 39-45 or 46-55 (RCL). We’re…
Hell is a Garbage Dump
Susan will be away for the next couple of weeks, so there will be no Friday reflections on October 4 and October 11. Her Friday reflections will resume on October…
Will. You. Follow. Me?
Isaiah 50: 4c-9a; Psalm 116; James 2: 14-18 (RM) or 3: 1-12 (RCL); Mark 8: 27-35 (RM) or 27-38 (RCL.) On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June, many long years…
The Practical Necessity of Rules and Laws
Deuteronomy 4: 1-2, 6-8 (RM) or 6-9 (RCL); Psalm 15; James 1: 17-18, 21b-22, 27 (RM) or 1-17 (RCL); Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Rules. Law. The rule of law.…
Written Symbolically But Taken Literally
Proverbs 9:1-6; Psalm 34; Ephesians 5: 15-20; John 6: 51-58. There’s a saying I’ve run across more than once lately: “In our time, we tend to think that the ancient…
Be Careful What You Pray For
1 Kings 19: 4-8; Psalm 34; Ephesians 4:30-5:2 (RM) or 4:25-5:2 (RCL); John 6: 41-51 (RM or 35, 41-51 (RCL). Be careful what you pray for. God might just give…