We invite you to join us during Lent. Each week beginning on Friday, February 16th we will host a 15-minute podcast from 12:45 - 1:00 pm.

Each podcast will include:
  • Welcome/Opening Prayer
  • Silence (~ 5 minutes)
  • Gospel and Reflection (led by a member of our Chapter)
  • Silence (~ 2 minutes)
  • Invitation to share a word or thought that spoke to you
  • Closing Prayer
Please try and log on a couple of minutes before 12:45. Everyone will be muted to minimize external noise.

John 4: 5-15; 19b-26; 39a; 40-42

Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, 
near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob's well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
The Samaritan woman said to him, 
"How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?"
—For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.--
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God
and who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink, ' you would have asked him 
and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, 
"Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; 
where then can you get this living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob, 
who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself 
with his children and his flocks?" Jesus answered and said to her, 
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; 
but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; 
the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him,
"Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty 
or have to keep coming here to draw water.

"I can see that you are a prophet.
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; 
but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem."
Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father  neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you do not understand; 
we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him 
must worship in Spirit and truth." The woman said to him,
"I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; 
when he comes, he will tell us everything." Jesus said to her,
"I am he, the one who is speaking with you."

Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him.
When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; 
and he stayed there two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word, and they said to the woman, 
"We no longer believe because of your word;
for we have heard for ourselves, 
and we know that this is truly the savior of the world."

Mark 1: 12-15

The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, 
and he remained in the desert for forty days,
tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts,
and the angels ministered to him.

After John had been arrested, 
​Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming
​the gospel of God:
"This is the time of fulfillment.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel."

John 9: 1; 6-9; 13-17; 34-38

As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.
He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva,
and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, 
"Go wash in the Pool of Siloam" — which means Sent —.
So he went and washed, and came back able to see.

His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, 
"Isn't this the one who used to sit and beg?" Some said, "It is, "
but others said, "No, he just looks like him." He said, "I am."

They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees.
Now Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes on a sabbath.
So then the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see.
He said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see." So some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God,
because he does not keep the sabbath." But others said,
"How can a sinful man do such signs?" And there was a division among them. So they said to the blind man again, "What do you have to say about him, since he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."

They answered and said to him, "You were born totally in sin,
and are you trying to teach us?" Then they threw him out.

When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out,
he found him and said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
He answered and said, "Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"
Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he." He said, "I do believe, Lord," and he worshiped him.

Mark 9: 2-10

Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up
a high mountain apart by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them, 
and his clothes became dazzling white, 
such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, 
and they were conversing with Jesus.

Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah." He hardly knew what to say,
they were so terrified. Then a cloud came, casting a
shadow over them; from the cloud came a voice, 
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone
but Jesus alone with them.

As they were coming down ​from the mountain,
he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone,
except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves, 
questioning what rising from the dead meant.