Gospel Reflection on Matthew 26:14-27:66
March 29, 2026 Passion of the Lord Today, we remember how Jesus entered Jerusalem for the events of His passion. Our procession today is lively, even full of laughter, because the star of this procession is the donkey. Emperors and kings entered their capitals riding powerful horses, and we prefer to make our entrances on credentials designed to impress. Our career, our accomplishments, our heritage. But Jesus is always born by a vessel that is poor. Christ always arrives li
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Gospel Reflection on John 11:1-45
March 22, 2026 Now a certain man was ill, Laz′arus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Laz′arus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.”Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
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Gospel Reflection on John 9:1-41
March 15, 2026 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” As he said this, he spat on the grou
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Gospel Reflection on John 4:5-42
March 8, 2026 So he came to a city of Samar′ia, called Sy′char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samar′ia to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Sam
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Praying with icons - March 1, 2026
The healing of the paralytic We often think of those living in the 1st century Palestine as being simple people governed by naive beliefs and superstitions. But their view of the world is not that different from the way we often view events in our world. Many people today have a very real belief in luck, fate, as if power over creation operates arbitrarily. And our goal is to somehow put ourselves in the path of such power. We become victims of superstition, and we're not muc
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Gospel Reflection on Matthew 17:1-9
March 1, 2026 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain apart. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Eli′jah, talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is well that we are here; if you wish, I will make three booths here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Eli′jah.” He was stil
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