Saturday, March 7, 2015

Agape as flowing water

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If I ever get a chance to preach on this Sunday, I’m taking it. I don’t think that, in a lectionary packed with the riches of creation, ther...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Fasting and almsgiving - a quick lesson from the Lenten lectionary

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A lot of Catholics (and others) attended services on Ash Wednesday. When they did, they heard the proclamation of a fast proclaimed in the b...

The element of surprise (A3L)

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First, let me be among the first to let the poor Hebrews off the hook for Massah and Meribah in the freaking desert. Why is it that we Chris...
Friday, February 27, 2015

SongStories 41 - Palm Sunday Processional (1998, GIA Publications)

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As you probably are well aware, if you read this blog, the liturgy of Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, the Sunday before Easter, begin...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Who will hold back God's hand? (B2L)

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Our family Bible was an illustrated one; as a child I didn’t do much more with it than look at the pictures, and maybe when a little older r...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Jonah's tiff with Noah's God

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See the readings for this Wednesday 2nd week of Lent. I wrote a lot last year on “the sign of Jonah,” and mentioned my question about God...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

O God, you were a warrior, but you set your bow in the sky (B1L)

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About five years ago, I read  Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God , Jack Miles’ very interesting literary reading of the Bible as a book (ra...