Advent is coming… The reading for this week may catch several of us unaware (particularly if one didn’t grow up in a tradition which uses the lectionary). We’re starting to get ready for Christmas – Isn’t Advent all about the expectation of that baby in the manger? Then, why are we reading about the Second Read More …
Now that we are in Lent, the Lectionary turns to the temptation of Jesus (Luke 4:1-13). This can be a hard story to relate to — after all few of us have probably had an audibly verbal conversation with Satan — and even fewer of us have to defend to him that we are the Read More …
Today is Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent. Lent is a traditional season on the Christian calendar which focuses on confession, fasting, and repentance for forty days leading up to Easter, the celebration of Christ’s resurrection over death. In most Christian churches, today the priest will make a cross of ashes on the Read More …
