Lenten Reflection

Lenten Reflection, Wednesday, March 27, 2013- Paul M. Beaudin, PhD   Each Lent, it seems, I am asked to reflect upon a passage of scripture that in some way references having a beard plucked out…this year the passage includes the added imagery of buffets and spitting.  As a former urban school principal, Isaiah’s imagery conjures up my recollections of breaking up playground skirmishes on the asphalt in East Harlem.   But my personal recollections of that time are not why we break open the scripture today as a worshipping...

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Lenten Reflection

      LENTEN RELECTION (Monday March 3, 2013) Jack Donohue “No  prophet is  accepted in his own native place.”  (Lk. 4)        PROPHET:         *One who speaks for the Lord         * stands up/stands out         *upstart/ firebrand               *  Implores, exhorts, even berates             ...

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Lenten Reflection

Reflection for Mass by Jeanne McDermott                                                  March 21, 2013    Readings of the Day:  Genesis 17:3-9                                    ...

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Lenten Reflection

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you!             Psalm 139 ... You knit me together in my mother's room...you really know me!             When I think or cell someone or text...of a loved one on subway...infinitely closer than person next to me Have no fear...I am with you to deliver you! From whatever is going one...bankruptcy....illness...breakup of a relationship... And because you have no fear you can sing a NEW SONG!  New...

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Lenten Reflection

Lenten Gospel           Healing the Mute                   No doubt each of us has his / her own favorite gospel and mine is the one composed by the Lucan community – the one that offers a portrait of Jesus the Healer. And so it is with today’s portion, we come upon Jesus once again in his arduous and faithful work of healing – healing us, yesterday, today and forever. Though the lesson of the gospel...

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Lenten Reflection

As I was reading the Gospel I felt a sense of joy because it states that whoever obeys and teaches the commandments will be called the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Jesus is speaking about all of us.  If we follow the commandments and teach others to do so we will be exalted in Heaven; isn’t that a beautiful thing to look forward to?  It makes us think, especially during this time of Lent - how am I living my life, what can I change?  Will I be able to be called one of the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? This Gospel...

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Lenten Reflection

“Do not let us be put to shame”   Today’s two readings demonstrate how to experience shame and how to work through shame.   During Lent, we are called to take stock of our sinfulness, but without losing hope that God will forgive, that our closest loved ones will forgive, and that we will forgive ourselves and others.  And yet, this deep into the Lenten season, with daily reminders that we are sometimes not as good as we strive to be or as others expect us to be, it is all to easy to feel shame, to be ashamed.  It is...

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