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Holidays and Holy Days

Here you will find musings related to Advent and Lent, Christmas and Easter along with reflections prompted by holidays like Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, and the onset of summer. It’s also a place for thoughts on Holy Days and related topics like the communion of Saints and the Sacraments. Posts  are  pictured  with  the  most  recent  first.  Look  for  season-related  series  or  start  with  one  of  these  popular  reflections:

  • 5 Thanksgiving Psalms to Pray This Week
  • 40 Days in the Word: 3 Ways to Add Scripture to Your Lenten “Diet”
  • Praying with the Penitential Psalms
  • Find Peace This Advent
  • The Jesse Tree: An Advent Tradition for the Whole Family

 

Palm Sunday: ENTERING THE NEW COVENANT
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 been six or seven years ...
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5th Sunday of Lent: ANNOUNCING THE NEW COVENANT
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 the work so much; it ...
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4th Sunday of Lent: CALLED BACK TO COVENANT
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, for crying out loud; God ...
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3rd Sunday of Lent: COVENANT WITH MOSES
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 forward, for better, for worse ...
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2nd Sunday of Lent: COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
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 as I smoothed the hand-crocheted ...
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1st Sunday of Lent: COVENANT WITH NOAH
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 up from the sea. Adam did ...
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Lent, Year B: GOD HAS A PLAN!
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 journey through God's plan to ...
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ASH WEDNESDAY: It’s time to get clean
(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 the running back took the ...
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A TALE OF TWO KINGS
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 Julius Caesar, who had proclaimed himself ...
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