Vincentian Reflections: Fifth Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (John 11:1-45)  So Jesus came to the tomb.  It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.  Jesus said, “Take away  the stone.”  Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four  days.”  Jesus said to her,...

Vincentian Reflections: Fourth Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (John 9:1-41)  As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made...

Vincentian Reflections: Third Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (John 4:5-42) Jesus came to a town of Samaria …Jacob’s well was there.  Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well.  It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”  …The Samaritan woman said to...

Vincentian Reflections: Second Sunday in Lent

Gospel:  (Matthew 17:1-9)  Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light.  And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to...

Vincentian Reflections: First Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (Matthew 4:1-11) At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.  He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.  The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that...