These reflections are from the reading for the weekends during the Cycle B Lenten Season of the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
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Reflection for the 1st Sunday of Lent (Cycle B)
Reading I: Genesis 9:8-15
Reading II: 1 Peter 3:18-22
GOSPEL: Mark 1:12-15
The Rainbow Connection
When my brother was a toddler, he surprised us all one day. It was bath time and we heard a splash. There was my brother, playing in the bathtub in...
Reflection for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (Cycle B)
Reading I: Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
Reading II: Romans 8:31b-34
GOSPEL: Mark 9:2-10
God Has Your Back
Sometimes life can be hard. For many people in the world today, life is always hard. Yet in the first lines of today’s second reading f...
Reflection for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (Cycle B)
Reading I: Exodus 17:3-7
Reading II: Romans 5:1-2, 5-8
GOSPEL: John 4:5-42
The Heart Of Our Lenten Journey
A man once performed an amazing feat by going across Niagara Falls on a high wire. When he successfully made the crossing, the crowd cheered....
Reflection for the 4th Sunday of Lent (Cycle B)
Reading I: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23
Reading II: Ephesians 2:4-10
GOSPEL: John 3:14-21
Christianity Simplified!
God so loved the world that he gave his only son. (John 3:16)
It is perhaps the most widely cited Scripture. It is short, simple,...
Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Lent (Cycle B)
As Christians, we understand that God is in us. We understand that we are each an integral part of the Body of Christ on earth. We are the hands and feet of Christ in the world today. And when we share his message – when we share his love – we are his...
Reflection for Palm Sunday (Cycle B)
On Palm Sunday, the Church remembers Jesus’ triumphant return to Jerusalem. But the cheers soon turned to jeers, while Jesus was made to suffer and eventually died by crucifixion. In many ways, we all experience the same thing in smaller doses at different t...