Tag: Lent
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Palm Sunday, Year B 2023: Psalm Passage – Celebrating Jesus’ & the Divine’s Identity during Lent
Preacher: “Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away. I am the scorn of all my adversaries,…
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Palm Sunday, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – Confirming Jesus’ identity during Lent
I want to tell you, beloved reader, I have been freely going back and forth between the passage citations for the liturgy of the Palms & the liturgy for the Passion. Mostly the liturgy of the Passion because the Palm verses are scant in passages. Both are applicable for Palm Sunday. Just so you know.…
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Palm Sunday, Year B 2023: Epistle Passage – Confirming our identity during Lent
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.” (Philippians 2:5 – -7a) As I sat with this…
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Fifth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Psalm Passage – Petition & Plea for Intercession . . . . during Lent: Preacher & Seeker speak the words of the psalmist, and their own
{Instruction to beloved readers; this is a mingling of Psalm 51:1-12 & Psalm 119:9-16. Trace out and track down which verses are from which passage; or simply enjoying the interweaving. Shalom!} Seeker: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.” Preacher: “How can…
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Fifth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – Events coming to the inevitable conclusion . . . . during Lent
“Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.” (John 12:20 – 22) The coming of the…
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Fifth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Epistle Passage – The Order of Melchizedek . . . during Lent
“So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”; as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” (Hebrews 5:5 – 6) I had…
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Fifth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Old Testament Passage – The days are surely coming . . . as we approach the end of Lent
“The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” (Jeremiah 31:31) “My people”, the Lord God says, “My people I will take care of. I will look after them. I will not forsake them or leave them to wonder…
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Fourth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Psalm Passage – The solace that Lent & belief can bring; Preacher and Seeker testify to it
Preacher: “O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.” I am thinking about all the ways that events in my life come together. It does not always work out that way, I must say. And there are rough spots. But if I take a step back, I…
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Fourth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Gospel Passage – The solace that Lent can bring
“And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” (John 3:14 – 15) There are a great deal (I at first thought “a whole lot” but wanted to sound more refined & polished) of images…
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Fourth Week of Lent, Year B 2023: Epistle Passage – The corrections Lent brings
“You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the…
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