Category Archives: Lent

Lenten Readings: Day 14

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

How To Make It Hard To Understand Romans One of the reasons I wanted to do reflections in Lent on the second reading from the Daily Office Lectionary was because I saw that for most of the season it was … Continue reading →

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St. Patrick, Missionary Bishop to Ireland

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

[This blog posting is heavily in debt to Thomas O’Loughlin’s Discovering Saint Patrick (New York NY/MahwahNJ: Paulist Press, 2005). If you are serious about Patrick you’ll read this book] There are few historical figure burdened with more legends, myths, and … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 13

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Wrath and Judgement Paul leaves what he understands to be “sexual depravity” to speak of depravity in general in the last few verses of Chapter 1. The failure to acknowledge God by the light of natural reason and turning to … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 12

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Roman Idol Having introduced himself and his various themes with elaborate rhetoric, Paul then goes on to state his main theme, lest anyone forget it: the good news of Jesus Christ “is the power of salvation to everyone who has … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 11

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Roman Holiday Today we begin reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and over the next four weeks we will work our way from the very beginning to the end of chapter eleven. We then pick it up later in Eastertide … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 10

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

The Great High Priest Today’s second reading in the Daily Office Lectionary is our last from Hebrews this Lent until Holy Saturday, the final day of the season. Starting next week we begin reading our way through most of Paul’s … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 9

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

What If God Was One Of Us? I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with this song from 1995. Written by Eric Bazilian and sung by Joan Osborne, it asks an important question without really engaging with the fact that Christianity … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 8

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Rest/Restless The passage from Hebrews today continues to riff off of the passage in Psalm 95 quoted in the past two days: “As in my anger I swore,“They will not enter my rest.””. The image is of a very anthropomorphic … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 7

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Rejection All of us have experienced rejection. Some of us have experienced it in jobs, relationships, school, and in other circumstances. Some of us have experienced it in church, when we have been told that people like us have no … Continue reading →

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Lenten Readings: Day 5

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Bruce Bryant-Scott

Atonement In this week after the First Sunday in Lent we read some passages from the Letter to the Hebrews. Hebrews is an anonymous letter, although it was sometimes attributed to Paul. However, early manuscripts do not have such an … Continue reading →

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