What is Your Role

So Lent has been leading us to this week, Holy Week.  I don’t know about you but I have heard this Gospel before.  I have read aloud the parts of the crowd.  So what is different this time?  I suggest maybe this time read the Gospel and put you in it.  Take a role.  Maybe this year your Peter, professing that you will never let our Lord down and within a few hours stating “I do not know the man.”  Maybe you are one of the high priests who send out for Jesus to be arrested.  You might even be one of good faith and never thought it would come to this.  There you are standing with those accusing Jesus of false crimes.  How can this be happening? Time to keep your mouth shut or you might be next.  This year maybe you’re

Prophet?

  I was asked to write a lenten reflection today, so Here is what I wrote fro my favorite Alaska resident, Meghan

“Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” How many times have we heard this statement and how could they not see or how could they not hear or how could they not understand?  There are some hard hearts that will never see, hear, or understand.  This is hard for some of us to get past as they are our friends, neighbors and those we love.  Does that mean we stop loving them or more importantly loving them with the Gospel, of course not?  Sometimes it is just easier for us to just walk away or not get into it with the hard hearted but is that what we are called to?  Of course not because some will hear or see us proclaim the Gospel and say "Never before has anyone spoken like this man” and "This is truly the Prophet."  That’s right we are the prophets from the moment we were baptized