Lenten Reflections
Go! for Lent: Psalm 122
The Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, NY is one of my favorite places on earth. It is, for me, a “thin place” – a place where heaven and earth […]
Go! for Lent: Mark 10:52
Bartimaeus, the blind man of Jericho, had an incredible faith in Jesus and what He could do for him. Imagine this man sitting on the floor, begging for help, money, […]
Go! for Lent: Luke 4:18-19
The meaning of this scripture passage for me is that it is Jesus’ statement of mission a way forward for Jesus and for us today. It is used in my […]
Go! for Lent: Ruth 1:16
In the Old Testament, the book of Ruth comes to us like a precious gem following as it does numerous stories of war and conquest from the earlier books that […]
Go! for Lent: Mark 10:21
My brother and I started off the year making a pledge to each other. My brother turns 50 this year and I am his senior by only a mere 5 […]
Go! for Lent: Luke 14:21, 23
“Go out at once into the streets…” This scripture speaks to me because it is about action. It speaks to us of the expansiveness of God’s love, represented here in […]
Go! for Lent: John 15:15b-17
The fifth grade class at Trinity Episcopal Day School in Baton Rouge is intrigued by what it means to “go and bear fruit” as described in John 15:15b-17. We discussed […]
Go! for Lent: Psalm 121:8
If Lent – and life – is a journey, then we can have no better words to be our companions on the way than the eight verses of Psalm 121. […]
Go! for Lent: 1 Samuel 3:1-9
These verses, especially: “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening”, resonate with me in a very direct way this Lent. I recently became a Postulant for the priesthood in The […]
Go! for Lent: Esther 4:16
The Book of Esther is one of my favorite stories of The Bible. There’s a lot of learnings and reflections we can make from this novel. Esther 4:16 is a […]