Fourth Sunday of Lent The ordinary and extraordinary providence Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on the evening of… Read More »ENFS140
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent The law and the freedom Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass… Read More »ENFL060
Third Sunday of Lent The call of Moses Meanwhile Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the Lord appeared to him… Read More »ENFS139
Second Sunday of Lent Give us, Lord, the courage of the cockchafer He [the Lord] took him outside and said: “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.” Abram put his faith in… Read More »ENFS138
First Sunday of Lent The temptations in the desert Filled with the holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were… Read More »ENFS137
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time The prayer in difficult situations When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do a man’s faults when he speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in his conversation is the test… Read More »ENFS163
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time From the man of flesh to the spiritual one So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the… Read More »ENFS162
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Christ is raised: we too will raise But if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ… Read More »ENFS161
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time The spirit of the evangelizer While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked… Read More »ENFS160
Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time The destiny of the witness and of the church Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had… Read More »ENFL148
