First Week of Advent Keep vigilant, nurture hope Psalm 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope. Like many women of my generation, I pursued higher education, married late and struggled with infertility. I became a mother by adoption at the age of 40, after two years of… Read more »
December 4, 2017
Advent/Adviento: Monday, Dec. 4/Lunes, 4 de dic.
First Week of Advent Keep vigilant, nurture hope Psalm 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope. Like many women of my generation, I pursued higher education, married late and struggled with infertility. I became a mother by adoption at the age of 40, after two years of… Read more »
Keeping watch A Revised Common Lectionary resource for December 3 by Magdalena I. García ‘From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.’ – Mark 13:28 Read the full lectionary passage here Two orchids sit on my kitchen table… 
A double standard A Revised Common Lectionary resource for November 26 by Magdalena I. García And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ – Matthew 25:40 Read the full lectionary… 
Burying and unearthing A Revised Common Lectionary resource for November 19 by Magdalena I. García So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours. – Matthew 25:25 Read the full lectionary passage here Life is a constant cycle of burying and unearthing, and this… 
Stay woke A Revised Common Lectionary resource for November 12 by Magdalena I. García Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. – Matthew 25:13 Read the full lectionary passage here It’s remarkable that this parable focuses on bridesmaids because in the Gospels’ narrative it was the male disciples who fell… 
Love God, love the ‘hood A Revised Common Lectionary resource for October 29 by Magdalena I. García [Jesus] said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. and a second is like… 
Paying tribute to God A Revised Common Lectionary resource for October 22 by Magdalena I. García Then [Jesus] said to them, ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ – Matthew 22:21b Read the full lectionary passage here When the way we amass capital… 
Down the right path A Revised Common Lectionary resource for October 15 by Magdalena I. García [The Lord] restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. – Psalm 23:3 Read the full lectionary passage here When we allow God to heal us from hatred and to lead us down the…