Tag: Matthew 6:1-6 16-21

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  I Don’t Want To Do Lent This Year

  January 28, 2016

  As I write this reflection it’s the third week in Epiphany and I’ve been thinking about Lent for a couple of weeks now. I am thinking about Shrove Tuesday; the pancake supper, the palms we will burn, and the ashes we will prepare for the next day’s liturgy. I am thinking about the fragility of Read more
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  Welcome to the Human Race – An Ash Wednesday Sermon, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

  February 21, 2015

  A couple of years ago I was talking with a women who is and has been for many years my therapist, counselor, mentor, and teacher all rolled into one. I told her that I worked really hard to always get it right, to have the answer, to always know what to do, to speak the Read more
• Sermon for Ash Wednesday

  February 24, 2009

  Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, we will gather to be marked with ashes and remember that we are dust and to dust we shall return. The gospel for Ash Wednesday is Matthew 6:1-6,16-21. Jesus said, “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have Read more