Posts Tagged ‘Good News’

Lectionary Reflection: Second Sunday of lent

Mar 4, 2009

Readings: Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 Romans 8:31b-34 Mark 9:2-10 Thoughts for your consideration: This Sunday we are asked to see things in a new way. Although the apostles have been with Jesus for a while now there is nothing that can quite prepare them for the ultimate cosmological experience of the Resurrection. It is ... Read more

In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged Abraham, Economic Justice, Genesis, Good News, justice, Mark, New Cosmology, Pope Benedict XVI, Romans, Transfiguration

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Lectionary Reflection: March 1, 2009

Feb 25, 2009

Readings: Gen 9:8-15 1 Pet 3:18-22 Mark 1:12-15 Thoughts for your consideration: Covenants are a social contract. In many ways the scripture is an ongoing saga of the social contract between God and his Creation. For some Christians this notion of a covenant is understood to be very passive. God is the only active participant ... Read more

In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged Baptism, Covenant, feeding, forgiving, free will, Genesis, God, Good News, grace, healing, justice, Mark, Peter, temptation

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Lectionary Reflection for January 18, 2009

Jan 14, 2009

Readings: 1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20 John 1:35-42 Thoughts for Your Consideration: This week’s readings offer us two interrelated themes: the call and the temple. The first reading sets these two themes together with Samuel’s experience of being called while he is serving in the temple. Samuel’s experience seems unique but in ... Read more

In Lectionary Reflections | Tagged Call, Christian, Corinthians, God, Good News, human dignity, Integrity of Creation, Jesus, John, justice, Paul, Peace, prophet, Samuel, suffering, Temple