Listen to him'" (Mark 9:7). This verse, read during the Second Sunday of Lent, is from the Gospel of Mark, one of the three synoptic Gospels, and is part of the story of the event known as the ...

In these first two weeks of Lent, we've begun a new stage of our Holy Year pilgrimage. We've seen human frailty and the glory of what humanity can become. The temptations initiated Jesus' journey ...

The Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent is always about the Transfiguration. Although the Fourth Sunday of Lent is Laetare Sunday and the Church dons rose vestments to mark the midpoint of Lent ...

Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of ...

This second week of Lent invites us to behold the Christ of ... Church who will be welcomed at Easter or soon thereafter, this Sunday is a good day to celebrate a penitential rite with them ...

The Second Sunday of Lent is observed by the faithful all over the world on Sunday, March 5, 2023. This special day in the faith calendar is a time to slow down and consider God's blessings ...

Fear thrives when I avoid looking at it. When I bring my fears before God, they lose their power to terrorize. Second, it teaches me about love. Love lasts beyond the prospect of death and cannot be ...

It turns out not to be like a long holiday, or one of those endless childhood Sunday afternoons of the kind many of us ... 13-17 of this Gospel for Lent 2, he speaks of himself in the third person.

Transfigurations—those sudden splendid moments of vision that open new worlds, new truths, new vistas before us. We have all had them. The wedding day, the first child, the purchase of a home, the ...

Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22.23-end; Romans 4.13-end; Mark 8.31-end LENT is a time for new challenges and new ... which won’t be read at a Sunday principal service for another two weeks. We also ...

Welcome to our series of Lent and Easter reflections. The Reverend Mark Birch reflects on Peter’s denial of Jesus and how it is represented visually on the altar of the Lady Chapel with a crowing ...