Second Sunday of Lent

 A Lenten Renewal:Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily livesBy Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, Pope Francis often talks about Passion. Here I’m not referring to the passion as the suffering and death of Jesus, but rather the word meaning great ardor or

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Saturday of the First Week of Lent

 A Lenten Renewal:Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily livesBy Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, Today Jesus gives us some insight into what it means to be God. The passage begins, Love your enemies (Mt 5:43-48).  Imagine his followers hearing it for

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Friday of the First Week of Lent

A Lenten Renewal: Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily lives By Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, Today Jesus places before us in the Gospel at Mass the observation that we may have more moments than we realize in which we

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Thursday of the First Week of Lent

A Lenten Renewal:  Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily lives  By Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, In the Book of Revelation (which we aren’t reading at Mass today) we hear Jesus say, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My

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Wednesday of the First Week of Lent

 A Lenten Renewal:Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily livesBy Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People,  At today’s Mass the First Reading and the Gospel are related. In the Gospel (Lk 11:29-32) Jesus says His contemporaries are refusing to listen to His words as they

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Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

 A Lenten Renewal: Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily lives By Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel Reading at Mass from Mt 6:7-15 Jesus teaches us how to pray. Praying should be simple, but it can be

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Monday of the First Week of Lent

 A Lenten Renewal:Reflections on the Mass readings in light of our daily livesBy Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People,           Today is the Feast of the Chair of Peter. This commemorates the authority of the Pope as head of the Catholic

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First Sunday of Lent

 A Lenten Renewal:Reflecting on the Mass readings as they apply to our daily livesBy Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel reading we come with Jesus to the desert, led by the Spirit, where He is tempted by the devil and remains

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Saturday after Ash Wednesday

 A Lenten Renewal:Daily considerations of the liturgical readings as they apply to our contemporary livesBy Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, On this Lenten Saturday after Ash Wednesday we meet Levi at Mass, later known as Matthew. He was a member of the Jewish community

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Friday after Ash Wednesday

A Lenten Renewal: Daily considerations of the liturgical readings as they apply to our contemporary lives By Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My dear Good people, Some of us can remember the days when Lent was much more challenging in one way than it is now. There

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Thursday after Ash Wednesday

https://www.vermontcatholic.org/event/lent-the-work-of-renewing-our-baptism/ My Dear Good People,        On this Thursday after Ash Wednesday we hear in the Gospel a short passage where Jesus lays out the most basic principle of discipleship: If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take

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Ash Wednesday – February 17, 2021

A Lenten Renewal: Daily Considerations of the liturgical readings as they apply to our contemporary lives By Mother Marie Julie, SCMC  My Dear Good People,  The Word of God is living and active; it pierces more surely than a two-edged sword. (Hebrews 4:12-14) Each day during Lent let’s briefly consider

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