27 February 2015
27 February 2015 Friday of the First Week of Lent Life is not fair. Time and again we see that. We see it so much that in the end one must ...
26 February 2015
26 February 2015 Thursday of the First Week in Lent Our childhood imaginations open onto a world utterly different than this one, a world in ...
25 February 2015
25 February 2015 Wednesday of the First Week in Lent Jonah was a reluctant prophet. The task at hand was immense: a call to conversion in a ...
24 February 2015
24 February 2015 Tuesday of the First Week of Lent I have lived many years in northern places with long snowy winters. By late February, even ...
23 February 2015
23 February 2015 Monday of the First Week of Lent As I write this meditation, it is the Lunar New Year. Here in California, with its large ...
22 February 2015
22 February 2015 First Sunday of Lent There is a classic country song called “Almost Persuaded.” It is all country: a married person “all ...
21 February 2015
21 February 2015 Saturday after Ash Wednesday The reading from Isaiah continues from yesterday and serves as word of encouragement for the ...
20 February 2015
20 February 2015 Friday after Ash Wednesday Looking at this short Gospel reading (Matthew 9:14-15), we are presented with the two extremes: ...
19 February 2015
19 February 2015 Thursday after Ash Wednesday Moses, the leader for the Israelites, puts on his “lawyer hat” and speaks to his client, the ...
18 February 2015
18 February 2015 Ash Wednesday We very rarely hear from the book of Joel, but this reading is used every Ash Wednesday. Similar to Jesus’ ...