Forgotten Sabbaths

โ€œForgotten Sabbathsโ€
A reflection on 2 Chronicles 36:14-23; Jeremiah 25:11, 29:10-14
Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
ยฉ๏ธ2023 Gloria M. Chang

In those days, all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added infidelity to infidelity,  practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lordโ€™s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. 

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Beyond Descartes

Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)

Hebrews 4:1-5, 11; Mark 2:1-12

The aim of the Christian life may be expressed in many ways: union with God, communion in the Trinity, deification (theosis), the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, returning to the Fatherโ€™s house (the heavenly Jerusalem), or in the words of the author of Hebrews, entering into Godโ€™s Sabbath โ€œrest.โ€… Read the rest