The Lenten journey is the journey from death to life. To be a Christian is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings as we love and care for others. As Paul reminds us, we do not live in the past, rather, we are always moving forward, pressing […]

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The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “The Incarnate Senses: Christ dwells in you.” Born to live among us, Jesus Christ dwells fully in our humanity. He is alive in our senses, helping us point to him in sight, sound, scent, touch and taste. Faith is the power alive within us that understands […]

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In today’s gospel, Jesus tells the parable of the prodigal son, who though lost, was unconditionally welcomed home by his father. As Paul writes, we have been given the ministry of reconciliation as ambassadors for Christ, living as new creations who embody God’s reconciling love for all people. “So if anyone is in Christ, there […]

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The warnings are blunt and plentiful on the third Sunday in Lent. Repent, change your ways and bear fruit, or you will perish. The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Seek the Lord; call upon him…listen, so that you may live.” In the story of the fig tree, the landowner is patient and […]

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During Lent, we set our minds and our faith upon God’s promise of descendants as vast as the stars. We are a pilgrim people journeying by faith in the light of God’s promise. Paul declares that our citizenship is in heaven, a reminder of our mortality and the temporal nature of life. As Jesus laments […]

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Lent is a season of self-examination and repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love, strengthened by the gifts of word and sacrament. As we, like our Lord Jesus, journey through the wilderness of the world, we face, and struggle with, temptations. Paul encourages us to call upon the name of the Lord […]

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On Ash Wednesday, we begin a forty-day journey toward Easter with Christians around the world. Today is a day of fasting, repentance, and the imposition of ashes, reminding us that we will all die and return to the earth. As a fitting fast, Isaiah reminds us, “6Is not this the fast that I choose: to […]

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