Journey to Wholeness
Fourth Week of Lent, Monday
John 4:43-54
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine.
John 4:46
The Gospel of John calls special attention to Cana, the location of the first and second โsignsโ (sรฉmeion) revealing Jesus as the Messiah to Israel.… Read the rest
First Week of Lent, Saturday
… Read the restโYou have heard that it was said, โYou shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.โ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
First Week of Lent, Thursday
… Read the restโAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
… Read the restThen the Lord said to Moses: I am going to rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not. On
… Read the restBut during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath for the Lord, when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines.
Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:60-69
… Read the restThen many of his disciples who were listening said, โThis saying is hard; who can accept it?โ
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:44-51
… Read the restThe Jews murmured about him because he said, โI am the bread that came down from heaven,โ and they said, โIs this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?
First Sunday of Lent
Genesis 9:8-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15
Lent recalls the forty days of Jesusโ temptation in the wilderness, and the forty days of cosmic cleansing in the time of Noahโs Flood. … Read the rest
Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Luke 9:22-25
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
Genesis 2:15 (RSV)
Adam, priest and king of the Lordโs garden sanctuary, had the duty โto till it and keep it.” … Read the rest
Ash Wednesday
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
โฆthen the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:7
On Ash Wednesday, we remember our originsโthat we are dust of the ground.… Read the rest