Lent (Page 4)

The book of Deuteronomy tells us that we all have an 'agreement with God" and that God has one with us. How to discern and honor that agreemement?

Jesus invites his followers into a deeper relationship with God and others by challenging traditional standards of righteousness.

Peter was a person full of contraditctions, and yet Jesus gave him the "keys" to the kingdom. This is good news for all.

Jesus tells the people that no sign will be given them but the "sign of Jonah." What, then, is the story of Jonah trying to teach us?

Words matter. What we say - out loud and in our heads to ourselves - have an energy that shapes the world around us.

In today's gospel, Jesus tells a story where God identifies with the "least" in the world and says whatever we do for them is what we do for God.

In our Sunday readings, we hear of God’s covenant with Noah after the flood and then read about Jesus being “driven” into the desert by the Spirit – to develop his own covenant with God. Lent offers us a time to reflect on our own covenant with God and to let ourselves be “driven” into an inner desert where we face whatever separates us from God. In today’s reflections, guest blogger Maud McInerney offers us an original poem that emerged…

Isaiah 58 offers us a vision of a world where the faithful move through the world working to restore all that has become fractured and separated.

In Isaiah 58, God crituques the prayers and fasting of Israel because it is unrelated to what God really desires - concrete acts of liberation in the world.

During the season of Lent, we are invited to reflect more intentionally on what William Stringfellow called the "culture of death" and find ways to resist it.

In this final post of Lent 2023, we say thank you to all who followed, all who contributed and all who make this community possible.

The resurrection is not just an event that happened to Jesus. It is something that we are invited to participate in every day.