Readings: Isaiah 50: 4-7; Philippians 2:6-11; Mark 14: 1-15:47Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Barbara Moore On this Palm Sunday, we recall two noisy processions. Jesus Christ on a colt with ordinary men and women greeting him with cries, branches and praise. Some even linking him to the figure of King David. On the opposite side… read more →

Readings: Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Hebrews 5: 7-9; John 12: 20-33Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deni Mack, DMin God’s covenant is written on our hearts. Some of us sense that when we marry. Many sense it when holding their newborn child. Yet, God’s covenant is often not recognized. Each Lent we try to draw closer to the… read more →

Readings: 2 Chronicles 36: 14-16, 19-23; Ephesians 2: 4-10; John 3: 14-21Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sonja Livingston One of the few passages I know by heart is John 3:16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.… read more →

(Georgia Micoli reflects on Cycle A readings for the third Sunday of Lent for parishes with candidates and or catechumens preparing to celebrate the Easter Sacraments of Initiation. We will return to Cycle B readings next week)Readings: Exodus 17: 3-7; Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8; John 4: 5-42Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Georgia MicoliIn the Gospel story… read more →

Readings: Genesis 22: 1-2, 9A, 10-13, 13-15; Romans: 8: 31b-34; Mark 9: 2-10Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Susan Howard Life often gets in the way of faith doesn’t it? It’s just a fact. We drift, we succumb to all the temptations of advertising and greed and pleasure.Through a series of short stories about tests of faith… read more →

Readings: Genesis 9: 8-15; 1 Peter 3: 18-22; Mark 1: 12-15Click here to download a PD of this homily.Preacher: Susan K. Roll Have you ever visited Niagara Falls? Did you spend time standing above the powerful incessant rush of the water, leaning over (well, not too far over) the rail and letting the thunderous currents fill you with the grandeur… read more →

Readings: Leviticus 13: 1-2, 44-46; 1 Corinthians 10: 31-11:1; Mark 1: 40-45Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Cathy Kamp Healing with a caring touch is a hallmark of the ministry of Jesus in Mark’s Gospel. In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus cured Peter’s mother-in-law by offering her his hand, and in this week’s Gospel, he touches the leper… read more →

Readings: Job 7: 1-4, 6-7; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-19, 22-23; Mark 1: 29-39Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Sr. Karen Dietz The Book of Job is really a theological treatise of sorts, attempting to make the mystery of suffering more understandable. That is what we are presented with in today’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures. Tragedy upon… read more →

Readings: Deuteronomy 18: 15-20; 1 Corinthians 7: 32-35; Mark 1: 21-28Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Nancy DeRycke As Chaplain at a local nursing home, I often marvel at people’s insights. I was leading a floor service recently and was interrupted by Joel, a resident and a self-proclaimed agnostic. He told of his boarding an airplane on… read more →

Readings: Jonah 3:1-5,10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31;Mark 1:14-20Click here to download a PDF of this homily.Preacher: Deirdre McKiernan Hetzler There is an urgency in all of our readings today, isn’t there? Jonah preaches “Forty days more and Nineveh will be destroyed.” Paul writes “the time is running out…the world in its present form is passing away.” And, just before calling his… read more →