Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021, and Holy Week

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Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021, and Holy Week

Praying in solidarity with Jesus

Gospel: Mark 14:1—15:47
(The account of the Passion—betrayal, crucifixion, and death—of Jesus.)

This is a powerful lesson of the cross – that we cannot turn away from suffering. We must assume our crosses as faithfully as Jesus did; we must suffer in order to be healed. In being healed we will be able to accept Jesus’ reassurance that the cross is the occasion for the great manifestation of God’s love for us, not a condemnation of the world but a promise that the world is saved.

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Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 21, 2021

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Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 21, 2021

There is joy in surrendering to God’s will (God is not you)

Gospel: John 12 20–33
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour.

Contrary to all our usual instincts and logical conclusions, Christ invites us to follow him even when his ways seems foolish and defeated. To belong to Christ means a willingness to participate in his “hour” so as to come to know that resurrection, as improbable as it may seem at times, is the final glory in which we will share.

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Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 14, 2021

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Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 14, 2021

Rejoice! You are loved by God

Gospel: John 3 14–21
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16 is not about how much God loved the world. It is about in what way God loved the world. The single most important thing to notice about this verse is that God loved the world. God deeply loved the world that God created, and God longs for this creation to live.

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Third Sunday in Lent, March 7, 2021

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Third Sunday in Lent, March 7, 2021

Jesus’ righteous anger at the desecration in his Father’s house, our anger at the same

Gospel: John 2:13-25
Jesus found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers seated there. He … drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Jesus’ ministry overturns the religious laws of his day and establishes a new and holy temple—the temple of his body—where God and humanity would enter into a new relationship.

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Second Sunday in Lent, February 28, 2021

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Second Sunday in Lent, February 28, 2021

Be still, and pay attention to the presence of God in your life

Gospel: Mark 9:2-10
Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them.

The Gospel encourages us today, no matter what we have been told about ourselves, to see the spark of divinity in us, to imagine the possibilities, to open ourselves to others and the possibility of helping to create a better world.

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