LENT & COVENANT: Live-in the Dream
Join Fr Brendan Kilcoyne for his Sunday homily where he discusses the link between Lent and covenant with God.
“You can’t separate Lent from covenant… you can’t separate Lent from God’s promise. If you separate penance from this promise, penance becomes grotesque, it becomes self-harm, it becomes completely decontextualized… but if you situate it firmly in the context in which it is meant to be found, then penance is no longer sinister. It is perfectly logical; we are training so as to be open to God’s grace so we can keep our side of the covenant.”
Daily Mass Readings for the Second Sunday of Lent, Year C.
First Reading: Genesis 15:5-12,17-18: God makes a covenant with Abraham, promising him many descendants.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 27:1,7-8,8-9,13-14: A prayer to God who is our salvation.
Second Reading: Philippians 3:17-4:1: Paul encourages the Philippians to remain firm in their faith that Christ will subject all things to himself.
Gospel: Luke 9:28b-36: Jesus is transfigured in the presence of Peter, John, and James.
