3rd Sunday of Lent—Year C
3rd Sunday of Lent—Year C Luke 13:1-9 God is Willing to Get in the Dirt for Us My first reaction to the parable of the fig tree was that the tree owner was God, the gardener was Jesus, and the…
2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C
2nd Sunday of Lent, Year C Luke 9:28-36 Huts on a Mountain…is That What We Really Want? The Transfiguration solidifies Peter, James, and John’s growing suspicions of the identity of the man they have chosen to follow. Just a few…
1st Sunday of Lent, Year C
1st Sunday of Lent, Year C Luke 4:1-13 All That Glitters is Not Eternal I have a quote on my office wall an evangelical friend gave me. If differentiates God’s voice from that of Satan. God’s voice “stills, leads, reassures,…
A Lenten Thought
This quote was taken from the New Camaldoli Hermitage Facebook Page in Big Sur, CA- From our late and beloved Fr. Robert, some words for Ash Wednesday that he wrote in 2014: The season of Lent can provide the opportunity…
8th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
Luke 6:39-45, 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C A Plank’s Worth of Control To write the preschool Faith Formation curriculum each week, a lesson based on that Sunday’s gospel reading, Mary Yeakle and I try to distill Jesus’s words…
7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
Luke 6:27-38 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Why Do You Give? “If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other side…” (Luke 6:29) Who wants to do that? I actually think this gospel is really…