Lectionary | Catholic Moral Theology

Third Sunday of Easter: Two Aspects of Faith

by Jason King | Apr 22, 2020 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

First Reading: Acts 2:14, 22-33 Psalm: Psalm 16 Second Reading: 1 Peter 1:17-21 Gospel: Luke...

April 12, 2020 – Being Fresh Dough: An Easter Lectionary Post

by Jana Bennett | Apr 9, 2020 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

ACTS 10:34A, 37-43 PS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23I COR 5:6B-8JN 20:1-9 Happy Easter! Happy feast in...

Lay down your shame; pick up your palms

by Kelly Johnson | Mar 31, 2020 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

That’s the sense in which this arrival is, for all the menacing irony we may read into the hosannas of the fickle crowd, a victorious entry. He enters into the very depths of humanity like one taking a throne. Setting aside his comfort, safety, and eventually his life, emptying himself, he has chosen to be the king who stays with his people, no matter what they do. This is God’s glory already revealed.

Lectionary: The Lazarus Effect

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Mar 24, 2020 | Lectionary | 0 |

Fifth Sunday of Lent Ez 37: 12-14, Ps 130: 1-8, Rom 8:8-11, Jn 11: 1-45 With the psalmist we cry...

Sin is Human Division – 4th Sunday of Lent

by David Cloutier | Mar 18, 2020 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

The fundamental reality of sin is division. In his encyclical on hope, Pope Benedict XVI writes:...

Jesus, Not Superman – 1st Sunday of Lent

by David Cloutier | Feb 26, 2020 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

The space and time – the world – in which we find ourselves is a fallen one. It is in...

Lectionary: Hard Truths

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Feb 18, 2020 | Lectionary | 0 |

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lv 19:1-2, 17-18Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-131 Cor 3:16-23Mt 5: 38-48 We continue to make our way through Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, what biblical scholar Raymond Brown described as...

Who Will We Be?

by Kelly Johnson | Feb 12, 2020 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 15:15-20 Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 1 Cor 2: 6-10 Matthew 5: 17- 37 Our readings today face us with a timely call to welcome the law of God as a life-giving gift, as the site where we...