Easter Vigil – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Today readers of Matthew’s Gospel welcome the re-appearance of an angelic figure. The attentive reader is…

Holy Thursday – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

I’m struck by the night scenes in today’s readings. Exodus reading describes the nighttime preparations the…

Palm Sunday – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

We have a different Passion Narrative for each of our three-year cycle of readings. Today we…

Palm Sunday – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Dear Preachers: I pause today wondering how to focus my preaching. There’s so much to choose…

5th Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

John’s Gospel narrates a series of seven “signs” performed by Jesus. They began in Cana (2:11)…

4th Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

From ancient times the church has chosen three great narratives from John’s Gospel for the third,…

3rd Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

We are in Year A of the liturgical cycle and so we will get an opportunity…

2nd Sunday of Lent

We have arrived at the second Sunday in Lent. I sometimes wonder why the designers of the Lectionary…

1st Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS 2

We are not computers with pre-installed programs wired into us. God could have created us that…

1st Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Lent is a time when those catechumens (“elect”) who are preparing for Christian initiation at the…