In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy (Dot for short). Dot Com was a comely woman, large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.
5th Week of Lent, Monday, 08-04-19
Daniel
13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 / John 8:12-20 (Year C)
People bring a sinner to Jesus
Jesus forgave the sinner.
These lines by an unknown poet
strike a universal cord: “How I wish that there was some
wonderful place Called the Land of Beginning Again, Where all our mistakes and
all our headaches ... Could be dropped like a shaggy coat at the door,
5th Sunday of Lent, Year C - II
Isaiah 48:16-21 / Philippians 3:8-14 / John 8:1-11
Can you name one gadget that has gone through more evolution than the other gadgets? We may think it’s the mobile phone. Yes, that might be one of the contenders. Hint: this gadget has even crept into the mobile phones.
4th Week of Lent, Thursday, 04-04-19
Exodus 32:7-14 / John 5:31-47
Jesus speaks to the Jews
“My works testify on my behalf.”
Seventy-nine-year-old
Clara Hale has served as the foster mother to over 500 babies. “Mama Hale”
takes care of babies of drug-addicted
mothers until the mothers are able to take care of their babies themselves. Babies
of drug-addicted mothers enter life with a drug dependency themselves. That’s
what makes Mama Hale’s job so hard. “When a baby is crying for a drug,” she
says, “all you can do is hold it close and say to it,
4th Week of Lent, Wednesday, 03-04-19
Isaiah 49:8-15 / John 5:17-30
Jesus speaks to the people
“I seek not my
will but God’s.”
Hikers and
mountain climbers sometimes experience incredible highs. A Swiss hiker
describes such a high. It took place on the sixth day of a hike with a group of
friends. All of a sudden, she had the feeling of being raised out of herself.
She says: “I felt the presence of God ... as if his goodness and power were
penetrating me.”
4th Week of Lent, Tuesday, 02-04-19
Ezekiel 47:1-9,
12 / John 5:1-3, 5-16
Jesus cures a man
The man never gave
up hope.
Two frogs accidentally
tumbled into a bucket of cream. They thrashed about for an hour, trying to make
it up the side of the metal bucket. Exhausted, one of the frogs gasped,
“It’s no use!” With
that, he gave up and drowned in the cream.
5th Sunday of Lent C - Woman Caught in Adultery
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Michel de Verteuil
General Comments
There are three people in today’s passage:
• the woman;
• the group called “scribes and Pharisees”;
• Jesus.
As always, in your meditation you must let yourself enter the story from the viewpoint of one of the three.
•The woman was guilty of a sexual sin, but her story evokes any experience of having done something shameful in a moment of great vulnerability.
April 1-6: Weekday Reflections
April 1-6: From TK
April 1: Monday: Jn 4:43-54: 43
After the two days he departed to Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that
a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when he came to Galilee, the
Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the
feast, for they too had gone to the feast. 46 So he came again to Cana in
Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was a royal
official whose son was ill. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to
Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at
the point of death. 48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and
wonders you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down
before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man
believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. ….54.
4th Week of Lent, Monday, 01-04-19
Isaiah
65:17-21 / John 4:43-54
The man trusted
Jesus.
Years ago, there
was a movie called Quo
Vadis. Starring Deborah Kerr, it dealt with the persecution of
Christians in ancient Rome. One day after a dangerous filming session, a
reporter asked Deborah, “Weren’t you afraid when the lions rushed you in the
arena?” Deborah replied, “Not at all!
I’d read the
script and I knew I’d be rescued.”
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