April 3, 2022-John 12:1-8 (Lent 5C)

03/14/22 • 16 min

Today's episode highlights the beautiful cycle of gratitude and generosity. In this short story from John's gospel we find Mary with a heart filled with gratitude for what Jesus has done and what he is yet to do. She offers a costly gift to Jesus. It is generosity born out of immense gratitude. Mary's example teaches us the centrality of our love relationship with Jesus and how that love can form a generosity beyond limits in us for others.

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March 27, 2022-Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 (Lent 4C)

This week's episode explores a familiar story of Jesus about a generous father with two very different sons. The "Parable of the Prodigal Son" is one of three stories of Jesus that are grouped together for the sake of illustrating God's care for the margins and those who live there. Here we find a God who spares nothing to find everything that is lost.

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April 10, 2022-Luke 19:28-40 (Palm Sunday C)

The world of the 21st century is filled with empire, power, and politics. This world is not too unlike the world of Jesus so long ago. Jesus' entrance into the great city of Jerusalem is an entrance of a the gospel of peace and grace. Jesus openly and publicly contrasts his reign of peace with the Roman notion of power and empire. Perhaps here we can learn the important lessons of being Christ's people of peace in a world filled with empire and power.