5th Sunday of Easter “I give you a new commandment: love one another.” Years ago I read a commentary on this line written by St.…
Author: Rev. Adam A. Zajac
4th Sunday of Easter Have you heard the voice of the Shepherd? In general, yes, we’ve all heard the voice of the Shepherd. We’ve heard…
4th Sunday of Lent Lent is hard. Lent is meant to be a challenging and transforming time for us each year. In preparation of the…
3rd Sunday of Lent If I asked you what was miraculous about the first reading I’m sure the most common answer would be the burning…
So how’s Lent going? Has it gotten difficult yet? Because it’s going to.
The Gospel says that Jesus “was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil.” Often I think we hear the word desert and the first things that come to mind is sand and rock and heat… but in scripture a desert is firstly a place of isolation, where there are no distractions to hide from your inner struggles. And just like Jesus, we have begun our forty days of being in the desert. I ask if Lent has gotten difficult yet because like Jesus we are going to come face-to-face with temptations of our own.