Third Sunday of Lent – Year A Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2,6-9; Rm 5:1-2,5-8; Jn 4:5-42 Dear brothers and sisters, today, on the third Sunday of Lent, the Church offers us the opportunity to meditate on the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. We can contemplate two aspects of the encounter: on the one hand, […]
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent – Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 I’m sure that we’ve all heard the parable of the Prodigal Son before, but if we’re not completely overwhelmed by God’s great mercy, then perhaps we’ve missed some of the details, some of the ways that Christ tells us just how much God loves
Friday of the Second Week of Lent – Option 2 – Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 Today’s first reading and Gospel remind us of God’s providence, and that we need to respond in the proper way. The first reading marks the beginning of a very long story about Joseph: the whole affair takes about ten chapters to
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent – Lk 16:19-31 Today’s Gospel presents us with the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. It calls our attention that in absolutely all of His other parables, Jesus never gives a character a proper name: they are simply “a man,” “a woman,” and the like. Lazarus, a
Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent – Option 1 – Mt 20:17-28 In today’s Gospel, Matthew recounts the third time that Jesus foretells His death and resurrection, and this foretelling is the most detailed. After the discussion with the disciples, Christ ends by stating, almost in passing, a very profound truth, “Whoever wishes to
[1] A. In the entire Universe There Is Nothing Greater than Jesus Christ For its stage, the Incarnation had a tiny planet, lost among millions of stars and thousands of galaxies, but, because of the Incarnation, this planet is the real center of the universe. Human history is like a play in which, despite many
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent – Mt 23, 1-12 Jesus ends today’s Gospel with a lesson about humility: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” “On her deathbed, being asked by one of the nursing Sisters in attendance what virtue was the most important and dearest to
Monday of the Second Week of Lent – Lk 6:36-38 Today’s brief Gospel, all of three verses, contains Christ’s words telling us how we are to deal with our neighbors, namely, by being merciful as the Father is merciful, and by forgiving. Commenting on the difficulties that showing mercy and forgiving entail, Fulton Sheen tells
Second Sunday of Lent – Year A Gn 12:1-4a; Ps 33:4-5,18-20,22; 2 Tim 1:8b-10; Mt 17:1-9 Today we celebrate the second Sunday of Lent, and the gospel of this Sunday is always the gospel of the Transfiguration of Jesus. Tradition holds that the Transfiguration took place forty days before the Passion, and therefore we always
Saturday of the First Week of Lent – Mt 5:43-48 In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us some difficult instructions: “Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father. . . . be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” There’s an insistence on our
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