The Fifth Sunday of Lent 2021 – Cycle B, Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 In the movie, The Matrix, a beautiful stranger leads a computer hacker named Neo into a forbidding underworld where he discovers a shocking … Continue reading →

The Fourth Sunday of Lent 2021 – Cycle B; 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23; Psalm 137; Ephesians 2:4-10; John 3:14-21 As the server poured water over my hands to ritually wash them, as prescribed, I prayed, “Lord, wash away my iniquity … Continue reading →

The Third Sunday of Lent 2021 – Cycle B, Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25 I always thought that the opposite of love was rage, the extreme, irrational, uncontrollable expression of anger, the force that drove people … Continue reading →