Life is what is before us right now. One of the great values of Lent and other seasons of suffering is how they illuminate the present moment. When the disciples want to make camp on the mountaintop, Jesus doesn’t know what to say to them knowing that theywere frightened. Following this, a voice from the […]
Lent is a time of prayer and penance, when Christ wants to lead us back to our baptismal promises of dying to sin and of living for God. We prepare ourselves to enter once again into Jesus’ Paschal mystery and to renew it in our lives. Dying to sinDuring Lent, God’s people seek to put […]
In these familiar readings, a line jumps out: “He was among the wild beasts and the angels ministered to him.” We have not been promised a life without difficulty, free from floods and sin, disaster and temptation. We have been promised abundant life in the midst of these very difficulties. Jesus was not spared suffering […]
Gospel Reading – Mark 1:40-45Jesus cures a person with leprosy, who reports his cure to everyone. In today’s Gospel, we continue to hear Mark report the miraculous healings that Jesus performed in Galilee. The Gospel begins with Jesus healing a man with leprosy. Leprosy is a disfiguring, infectious skin disease that has been surrounded by […]
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Discouragement is a normal part of a faithful life. How resonant are Job’s words for you today? For different times during this pandemic? As Job goes through a season of loss and suffering and waiting, he laments the length of the nights, his weariness, his fear that this suffering […]