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Reality and Imagination: Isaiah 55:1-9

  Third Sunday of Lent All of you who are thirsty, come to the water! Whoever has no money, come, buy food and eat! Without money, at no cost, buy wine and milk! 2  Why spend money for what isn’t food,     and your earnings for what doesn’t satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good;     enjoy the richest of feasts. 3  Listen and come to me;     listen, and you will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you,     my faithful loyalty to David. 4  Look, I made him a witness to the peoples,     a prince and commander of peoples. 5  Look, you will call a nation you don’t know,     a nation you don’t know will run to you     because of the Lord your God,     the holy one of Israel, who has glorified you. 6  Seek the Lord when he can still be found; ...

Unconventional Saints: Leslie Foster: Numbers 27:1-11

  Ordinary Time Then the daughters of Zelophehad came forward. Zelophehad was son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, of the clans of Manasseh, son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.  2  They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying,  3  “Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the congregation of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the congregation of Korah but died for his own sin, and he had no sons.  4  Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father’s brothers.” 5  Moses brought their case before the Lord.  6  And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,  7  “The daughters of Zelophehad are right in what they are saying; you shall indeed let ...

A Holy Land: Gatekeepers and Changemakers (Genesis 28:10-19)

  Ordinary Time Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.  11  He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.  12  And he dreamed that there was a stairway set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.  13  And the Lord stood beside him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,  14  and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.  15  Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land...