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Good Friday, Holy Saturday; ENTERING THE DARK AND THE SILENCE

April 2, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 1 Comment

Today we enter the darkness. We feel the betrayal of Judas, then stand at a distance with Peter, deny Jesus ourselves.  Like Peter, we are afraid.  What use is there, for all this suffering? On Good Friday, we enter into it.  We stand horrified beside the cross.  “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” […]

Filed Under: Holidays and Holy Days, Scripture Reflection Tagged With: Lent/Easter

Palm Sunday: ENTERING THE NEW COVENANT

March 25, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

Readings for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. At the Procession with Palms:  Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16.  At the Mass:  Isa 50:4-7; Psa 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 – 15:47.  My most vivid childhood memory of Easter is the Palm Sunday morning we visited a community of religious sisters.  I must have […]

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5th Sunday of Lent: ANNOUNCING THE NEW COVENANT

March 18, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 1 Comment

Readings for the 5th Sunday of Lent:  Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-15; Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33 (if you hear different readings, your parish may be using the Year A readings that go with the Scrutinies for RCIA) The night before I turned sixteen, I couldn’t sleep for crying.   High school wasn’t easy for me.  Not […]

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4th Sunday of Lent: CALLED BACK TO COVENANT

March 12, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 3 Comments

Readings for the 4th Sunday of Lent:  2 Chr 36:14-16,19-23; Ps 137:1-6; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21 (if you hear different readings, your parish may be using the Year A readings that go with the Scrutinies for RCIA) The honeymoon didn’t last long. In fact, it hadn’t even started.  The people were still wearing their wedding clothes, […]

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3rd Sunday of Lent: COVENANT WITH MOSES

March 5, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

Readings for the 3rd Sunday of Lent:  Ex 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17; Ps 19:8-11; 1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25  (if you hear different readings, your parish may be using the Year A readings that go with the Scrutinies for RCIA) “Sarah, do you take Mark for your lawful husband, to have and to hold, from this day […]

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2nd Sunday of Lent: COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM

February 26, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 4 Comments

Readings for the 2nd Sunday of Lent:  Gen 22:1-2,9A,10-13,15-18; Psa 116: 10,15,16-17,18-19; Rom 8:31B-34; Mk 9:2-10. Our third child was being baptized, and the priest did something at the end I’ve never seen before or since. “Lay the child on the altar,” he said. We walked forward, and Mark laid Clay down on his back […]

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1st Sunday of Lent: COVENANT WITH NOAH

February 19, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

Readings for the 1st Sunday of Lent:  Gen 9:8-15; Psa 25:4-9; 1 Pe 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15  Adam was not aware. He lived in blissful beauty, he did not know the primal chaos.  He couldn’t know the bleak facts of life without God: darkness; void; formless waste. He did not witness the glory of land rising […]

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Lent, Year B: GOD HAS A PLAN!

February 17, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

As we plunge into Lent, settling into patterns of prayer and fasting and giving to others, the lectionary points us to the reason for it all. Each week until Easter, I’ll be musing on the Sunday readings: specifically, through the lens of the first (Old Testament) readings.  Read in turn, these take us on a […]

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ASH WEDNESDAY: It’s time to get clean

February 17, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 5 Comments

(Traducción en español al final) My son was the youngest and newest member of the local Peewee football league, and as such he sat warming the bench in his spanking-white uniform while his teammates slogged through the mud.  It was a cold and rainy day but the game was exciting, and we all cheered as […]

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A TALE OF TWO KINGS

December 23, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of a king, the Son of God. Did you know that the day he was born, many thought he had already come?   “He” was not a simple child of Israel. “He” was Caesar Augustus, who had already ruled for nearly 30 years.   The adopted son and successor of […]

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Sarah Christmyer writes and speaks about Scripture and the Catholic faith with the goal of helping people meet Jesus in his Word. “The Bible isn’t just a book about God or instructions for a good life; it’s a place to meet God and be changed by him,” she says. Her love of Scripture fuels her writing of Bible studies and related books; her teaching of Philadelphia seminarians; her speaking at conferences and retreats; and writing for blogs such as this one. “Come Into the Word” draws people into the Bible and encourages and equips them to explore it on their own.

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