A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent
JN.4 : 5 - 42 (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/031520.cfm) Today’s thought on my desktop calendar reads “True independence is found in dependence on the Lord”. With the readings for today, the Third Sunday of Lent, this inspirational thought could not suit better. “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts”, but…
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- March 15, 2020![](https://spiritan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/conversation-3513843_1280.jpg)
A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent
The apostles and Jesus had hiked up the mountain where they suddenly found themselves in God’s storeroom of greatness: Jesus, changed and glorified; Moses, the lawgiver; Elijah the prophet, a bright cloud, a voice and some chatter.
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- March 8, 2020![](https://spiritan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/chartres-62915_1920.jpg)
A Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent
Mt. 4: 1 - 11 ( http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030120.cfm ) Lent is a time of preparation. As such it presents an opportunity to focus once again on our priorities in life. Our day-to-day living presents us with so many options. Some of those, even though good in themselves, might also be considered temptations. Is that what we have in today’s…
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- March 1, 2020![](https://spiritan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ash-wednesday-4823377_1280.jpg)
A Reflection for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mt. 5: 38 - 48 ( http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022320.cfm ) Be Holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. In the rural Ireland of the 1950s and ‘60s where I grew up, to tell someone "you are holy", would be vigorously rejected; rather, the person would acknowledge, quite readily, being a sinner. Monthly confession…
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- February 23, 2020![](https://spiritan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/confessional-1399097_1920.jpg)