Tag: Lent
Second Sunday of Lent: Citizenship in Heaven
Readings for the Second Sunday of Lent can be found here. We are still towards the beginning of Lent as we observe what is the beginning of the second full week of Lent. We know that this is a time for penance, for recognizing...
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Transfiguration and Belonging – 2nd Sunday of Lent
First Reading: Genesis 12:1-4 Psalm: Psalm 33 Second Reading: Second Timothy 1:8-10 Gospel: ...
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Jesus, Not Superman – 1st Sunday of Lent
The space and time – the world – in which we find ourselves is a fallen one. It is in...
Read MoreLent and the Environment
Lent is here again! Most of us are a full week into our self-selected Lenten resolution(s) and are finding out just how easy or difficult they are for us to manage. And, like every year, people have chimed in with their...
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Third Sunday of Lent: Desert Transformations
EX 17:3-7 PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 ROM 5:1-2, 5-8 JN 4:5-42 Long-time readers know of my love of...
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Giving up giving up? Lent, Our Contemporary Wastelands, and Truth
“I don’t think I’ll be doing anything for Lent this year,” a close friend...
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Lent and Revisiting the Catholic Theologians’ Statement on Racial Justice
With Ash Wednesday, Lent is upon us. This liturgical season consists of forty days, not including...
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First Sunday of Lent: Scary Fasting and A Christian’s Thanksgiving
Fasting might be the most familiar of the Lenten practices, and one of the most durable practices...
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Gratitude and Lament in the Season of Lent
When I buy a house without thinking about how my race might affect the terms of my mortgage, or when I can drive down the street without worrying about being pulled over for a pile of snow covering one of the letters on my license plate, is the appropriate response gratitude? Likewise, as a man, when I can feel confident that my scholarly expertise will not be called into question because of my sex, should I be thankful?
Read MoreTo Love Fasting
This post is co-authored with Thomas M. Hart, O.S.B., Assistant to the President for Mission, Saint Vincent College. The prayers throughout Lent exhort us to a three-fold practice: prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. We...
Read MoreOur Lazarus Economy
In Luke’s gospel, Jesus tells the story of the poor man Lazarus. Lazarus lived on the door step of a “rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.” Daily, this rich man had to walk out...
Read MoreShould You Give Up Your Pew for Lent?
Paul Elie wrote a column in the New York Times on Friday suggesting that Catholics ought to consider “giv[ing] up Catholicism en masse, if only for a time.” If Benedict can resign, says Elie, so can we: For the...
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