Monthly Archives: February 2010

Lent 2 – Matthew 15:21-28

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit Do you remember? Do you remember your first kiss? Do you remember where you were when man landed on the moon? Do you remember … Continue reading

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How do the Gesimas and Lent fit together? A word from the Anglicans

I just ran across this nice little chart/article by XXX over at lectionary central: The Logic of Lent, by Robert D. Crouse What I like about this chart is that it ties together the Gesimas as the preparation, the first … Continue reading

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Stoeckhardt on Matthew 15:21-28

When the Lord humbles us, then do we first really understand our own condition, who we are; then do we become little, little in our own eyes. When the Lord once lets us feel his heavy hand, when he takes … Continue reading

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Walther on Lent 2 – Matthew 15:21-28

The first kind of struggle which God wages against the Christian is, as we see from the Syro-Phoenician woman, usually temporal distress. If not always bodily torment by Satan then at least it is other bodily misery, be it one’s … Continue reading

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Notes for Lent 2 – Matthew 15:21-28

The Post-Tridentine Roman Lectionary has the Transfiguration account on the Second Sunday in Lent. Fred Lindemann, “The Sermon and the Propers” The determined effort of the evil spirit to possess and to defeat the struggle of faith is here visualized. … Continue reading

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