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