Saints & Feasts Homilies & Readings

3rd Sunday of Lent 3-8-2026 Taking place at a well...taking time at a well...   In the early 300s a Church bishop in Palestine name Eusebius ran a book production factory and library in a city on the mediterranean coast called Caesarea. Eusebius of Caesarea built on the innovative legacy of two scholars – Origen and Pamphilus – who, basically, invented the book. The predecessor to the book, the sc...

A Reading from the Book of Gensis The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.“I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in yo...

Second Sunday of Lent – 3-1-2026 Year A – The Transfiguration   The Cloud of Knowing  The oldest surviving depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is in Rome. It dates from the 430s and  is carved into the wooden doors of the church of Santa Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill.  The carving is not particularly expressive of Christ’s suffering. He is alive and rather dignified. He is between two thieves, and...

First Sunday of Lent Readings 2-22-2026 Year C  A reading from the Book of Genesis   The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to...

First Sunday of Lent 2-22-26 Homily   We, the hearers of today’s mass readings, find ourselves in a primordial garden this First Sunday of Lent, ear witnesses to the first conversations of mankind. After blowing life into the nostrils of man, God quickly follows with a prohibition: “You shall not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil” ...and it’s all downhill from there.   The mo...

Ash Wednesday Readings & Homily 2026 First Reading:  Joel 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment. Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind him a blessing, ...

ASH WEDNESDAY 2026   Normally the first word that a baby learns, unsurprisingly, is “mama.” One of the next words that most babies learn is “more.” A baby wants more food, more drink, more mom, more dad, more everything.   We never forget that word, do we? From our infancy we simply want more and more. We even want more of non-tangible, non-physical things. We want more feedback. More compliments....