Third Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS 2

In public speaking courses trainees are often instructed to begin their speech with an interest-grabbing story.…

Third Sunday of Lent – First Impressions 1

Imagine that there were modern forms of communication in Jesus’ day—radio, television and the internet.  Judging…

Third Sunday of Lent

When I went home to our place, I happened to talk to one of the officers…

Third Sunday of Lent

ONE OF THE RECURRENT THEMES throughout the Lenten season is the compassion and mercy of our…

Third Sunday of Lent – To Convert is to Find One’s Identity

Exodus 3:1-8a,13-15; 1 Corinthians 10:1-6,1-12; Luke 13:1-9 Introduction “Things cannot go on like this, everyone takes…

2nd Sunday of Lent

The first reading today is very strange to the modern reader unless we make ourselves familiar…

2nd Sunday of Lent

The Lord “took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain…

2nd Sunday of Lent

Where are you a citizen? Often I meet people who tell me that they are a(an)…

2nd Sunday of Lent – First Things: Children

Message: By witnessing to our faith, we will have spiritual children.. This Lent we are talking…

2nd Sunday of Lent – The Transfiguration–The Plan

Peter, James and John did not want it to end. What did they not want to…