The lectionary selection from the Hebrew Scriptures for the 17th week of the year is one of my favorites. Listening to Abraham haggling with God like a trader in the bazaar reminds us that the Judeo-Christian Scriptures have always seen God in relationship with the Chosen People. That relationship, of course, reached it purest manifestation [...]
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Bargaining With God
Posted in Covenant, Lectionary, Old Testament, Prayer on July 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The big letting go
Posted in Covenant, Jesus, Lectionary, Old Testament on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
All week in the lectionary we’ve been hearing the story of Abraham. His choice to enter into a covenant with God set the course for the Chosen People. His story is their story—and ours. We are heirs to the promise made to Abraham and the greater promise fulfilled in Christ. The Akedah (the binding [...]
Fourth of July
Posted in Catholic Identity, Covenant, Homilies, Lectionary on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… or Wednesday of the 13th Week of the Year? This can be a tricky question for homilists and liturgists in the United States. I think people going to Mass in the typical parish today expect some acknowledgment of the civic holiday. The danger lies in using the Mass to praise America more than [...]
Doing Something New
Posted in Covenant, Gospels, Lectionary, Lent on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our journey through the desert becomes one of new birth, the discovery of new life where no life existed before, the hope that comes from putting the past behind us so that we are free to enter into a new life of water and the spirit.
No matter how bleak things may look, the Lord promises [...]
Whose people are we?
Posted in Covenant, Exodus, Old Testament on March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My friend Carol and her sister used to refer to their cantankerous mother as YM or “your mother.” I thought of this today when I was reading the passage from Exodus (32:7-14) where God and Moses are discussing the Israelites and both refer to them as your people. God wants Moses to take responsibility [...]
The cry of God’s people
Posted in Covenant, Lent on March 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Moses is fleeing from his past in Egypt when he finds himself not only in the desert but near the mountain of God and there he discovers his future. His flock will no longer be his father-in-law’s sheep but the people of the God of his fathers. He is called from security into the unknown.
Once [...]
The promise of an early spring
Posted in Covenant, Lent, Transfiguration on March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here in the Ohio Valley, spring starts to tease a winter-weary people around the beginning of March–days in the 50s, sunshine, daffodils up a few inches in the garden. We had some days like that last week and then the winds began to blow, the temperatures plummeted into the 20s again and we’re back to [...]
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