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Monthly Archives: March 2002

Wednesday Week 5 of Lent

What does the gentleman in Rome who combined these two readings today hope to achieve by putting them side by side? The story of the three youths thrown into the fiery furnace seems pretty clear—it is a test of gods. My god’s bigger than your god. King Nebuchadnezzar picks a fight: my gods, ably assisted …

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Posted byRobMarch 20th, 2002Posted inHomilies, Loyola Hall

Saturday Week 3 of Lent

There’s a peculiar feeling about that first reading. I wonder about people who think so ill of God and yet want to draw close. I thought, at first, I was disturbed by the way they place their disaster at God’s feet: ‘he has struck us down; he has torn us to pieces’. And that disturbance …

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Posted byRobMarch 9th, 2002Posted inHomilies, Loyola Hall

Friday Week 2 of Lent

“It was the stone rejected by the builders that became the keystone.” What does that teach us? What about this: “The Word became flesh and lived among us; He came into his own and his own did not accept him.” Words and stones: what do we build with them but lives? Lives and poems. Words, …

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Posted byRobMarch 1st, 2002Posted inHomilies, Loyola Hall
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