LENTEN REFLECTION WEEK SIX – 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
We are approaching the difficult time, Jesus. But first we will celebrate Palm Sunday with You. What a happy day that must have been with the smiling crowds chanting and cheering as You rode into the city. They waved palm fronds as You passed by. You smiled and waved to the crowd. You [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK FIVE 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
Jesus was a radical. The crowds loved to listen to Him. He had compassion for them; for their problems, for their hunger, and for their illnesses. He amazed those who heard Him preach. The chief priests and the elders of the Sanhedrin didn’t understand this new style of preaching. They saw how people [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK FOUR 2009

By Cathy Goretsky
How often do things turn out the way we planned for them to? We make our plans, do our preparation and set out, and when we least expect it, something happens to change everything. It can be something small or something very significant, but we still wonder what we could have done differently. [...]

LENTEN REFLECTION – WEEK THREE 2009 by Cathy Goretsky

We find ourselves almost half-way through the Lenten period. It’s a good time to do two things:  One would be to examine our personal goals for the season and identify the places where we have failed to meet those goals. The other would be to re-focus and look at the times when we have been [...]

Thanks to Cathy Goretsky for her well-written Lenten Reflections

LENTEN REFLECTION WEEK ONE – 2009
by Cathy Goretsky
Ash Wednesday arrived this year exactly two months after our joyful and beautiful celebration of Christmas. Now the altar in church no longer has the stately trees decorated with white lights. The Nativity Scene has been put away until next Christmas. Now there is a dry and barren [...]