Stillness and Silence
With Passion Sunday, also known as Palm Sunday, we begin our Holy Week. This is the week filled with great mystery, the week when we encounter more consciously the passion of Jesus our Lord. After the reading of the account of the passion of Christ on Passion Sunday, we are taken to the stillness of this most holy of times when we commemorate the events that brought about our salvation. Personally I find it best to enter this week with stillness and silence. After all, wha
A Series of Lenten Talks
This has been a week of preparing talks. On Tuesday I was at the Chatsworth Ministerial Lenten series offering a reflection. I chose to reflect on Job, whose perseverance in suffering has been a source of inspiration and fascination for me. What I most love about Job is that he does not give into the common extreme positions of those who experience difficulties: either blaming everything on God which can lead to faithlessness or blaming everything on himself which can lead
The Uncomfortable Sacrament
This Saturday our young parishioners made their first reconciliation. What a joy it was to see them prepare, make sense of the need to ask for forgiveness, be a bit nervous before they actually did it, and then bounce up and down after they went to confession. They were so proud of themselves, as they should be. This made me think: what about me? What about us? Do we still feel that way about confession? Or has the life of adulthood robbed us of this simple joy of having