This Sunday, we’re finishing up with our Lenten exploration of some passages of the Old Testament (next week is already Palm Sunday), and today we have a lesson from the Book of the prophet Ezekiel. Prophecy is a strange word for us, but still not unfamiliar: don’t we hear ever so often about “the prophecies…
Month: March 2023
Lent 4 (A) – 1 Samuel 16: 1-13; Psalm 23
This Sunday is going to look a little different than other Sundays because we’re going to dedicate part of our liturgy to do a service of healing with laying of the hands and anointing. It is a tradition that has always existed in the church, it’s already mentioned in the New testament, in James’s Epistle,…
Lent 3 (A) – Exodus 17: 1-7; Psalm 95
Last week, we talked about how Abraham was called by God to cross the wilderness trusting in God’s promise to give him a new land, a great name and countless descendants. About five centuries later, Abraham’s people finds themselves again in the wilderness, having to go back to Canaan, after they had been freed from…
Lent 2 (A) – Genesis 12: 1-4a
Today, we continue to read from the Book of Genesis. Last week, we talked about how the book is believed to have been written during the Exile in Babylon, in the 6th century before Christ, at this time where Israel starts to reflect on what it means to be a people, to have a land,…