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First Sunday of Lent
Year B
February 21, 2021
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

What Is Lent?

What about setting aside a little time each day to let your insides settle down for a while, to create a space within you in order to welcome God.

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser
OMI

Chaos and Grace

God sends his angels to minister to us when we are in the desert and in the garden of Gethsemane

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

The Rainbow and the Goodness of God

Where is the goodness of God in the story of the flood?

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Reflections

Larry
Gillick, SJ

Fasting

Lent might be a good time to fast from feeling falsely guilty.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Victory

Jesus’s victory over Satan represents a victory over the powers of evil, those forces that cause us to sin. The evil we struggle against in Lent is personal as well as social.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Conversion

Compare Noah with Christ­­­­­­­­­: Noah brings people out of the flood into a new creation; Christ to a new life or transformative experience through the waters of baptism.

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A Poem to
Sit With

J Janda

The Comforter

the power of hell

cannot prevail

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