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Come to the Water: Third Sunday of Lent, Year A — Prayer of the Faithful

Date: 8 March 2026 Season: Lent, Year A — Third Sunday Readings: Exodus 17:3–7 | Psalm 95 | Romans 5:1–2, 5–8 | John 4:5–42 Response: Reader: Lord, hear us. All: Lord, graciously hear us. Celebrant Introduction The woman at the well came alone, at noon, carrying what she needed to survive another day. She did not expect to be seen. She did not expect to be known. She did not expect to leave her jar behind. We come to this table...

The Light Was Already There

A Personal Encounter with the Gospel of the Transfiguration If you're reading this at 2am, unable to sleep, Googling something you can't quite name — stay. This isn't a homily. This is what happened to me. Seventeen Years Outside the Church — and Never Without God For seventeen years, I lived outside the Catholic Church. Not because I lost my faith — I never lost my faith. I lost my fit. My God was too big, too wild, too real for what I...

Asher Week 2: The Other Side

MARK 4:35 Peter’s knuckles whiten against the oar, muscles burning with each pull against the churning sea. Sweat mingles with spray on his weathered face, trickling down his neck despite the biting wind. The boat pitches beneath him – familiar motion turned treacherous – but his feet plant wider, finding balance even in chaos. His jaw clenches, tasting salt and frustration. The Master’s choice to cross tonight makes his teeth grind –...

Second Sunday of Lent (Year A) – Free Liturgical Resources

1 March 2026 | Lent, Year A Quick Reference Date: 1 March 2026 Liturgical Season: Second Sunday of Lent, Year A Readings: USCCB Daily Readings — 1 March 2026 Readings citations: Genesis 12:1–4a | Psalm 33:4–5, 18–20, 22 | 2 Timothy 1:8b–10 | Matthew 17:1–9 One-sentence theme: The light was not a special occasion. The question is whether we are willing to receive it as meant for us. Where Are We? In the Liturgical Year We are one...

Three People Who Knew What It Costs: 2 Lent, Year A, Background

Biblical Background — Second Sunday of Lent, Year A Quick Reference Date: 1 March 2026 Season: Lent, Year A — Second Sunday Readings: Genesis 12:1–4a | Psalm 33:4–5, 18–20, 22 | 2 Timothy 1:8b–10 | Matthew 17:1–9 USCCB: bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030126.cfm Theme: The face that shines — on being transformed by encounter rather than managing it Lenten Arc: Week one named the first hiding: the bush, the borrowed fig leaf, the...

Are You Ready to Shine?: 2nd Lent, Year A, Experience

Sunday Experience — Penitential Rite: Second Sunday of Lent, Year A — 1 March 2026 Quick Reference Date: 1 March 2026 Season: Lent, Year A — Second Sunday Readings: Genesis 12:1–4a | Psalm 33 | 2 Timothy 1:8b–10 | Matthew 17:1–9 Theme: The light came for you too — on receiving God's love as spoken to you personally Primary Placement: Penitential Rite Duration: 5–7 minutes Practical note on placement: With minimal adaptation this...

Stepping Into the Light: 2nd Lent, Year A, POF

Prayer of the Faithful: Second Sunday of Lent, Year A — 1 March 2026 Quick Reference Date: 1 March 2026 Season: Lent, Year A — Second Sunday Readings: Genesis 12:1–4a | Psalm 33 | 2 Timothy 1:8b–10 | Matthew 17:1–9 Theme: The face that shines — on being transformed by encounter rather than control Response: Reader: Lord, hear us.   All: Lord, graciously hear us. How to use this resource: This set contains more...

The Morning After Eden: The Identities We Build to Survive

About all what we bring to bed, a particular kind of intimacy and organising our entire self around not being wounded ever again.Plus the intensity as anaesthetic and what therapy cannot do alone - For those who long to be restored to right relationship. All we had in paradise We talk a lot about what happened in Eden — the fruit, the serpent, the fall. But there's something that gets less attention: the sequence. An old Talmudic tradition...

Sunday Toolkit

Catholic Liturgical Resources for Sunday Mass Sunday is everything and this is the space where vision meets practice — exploring what Sunday Mass can be when a community truly gathers, and providing the liturgical tools to help make it happen. For liturgy teams, priests, and everyone who believes Sunday is not just worth showing up for – it’s the heartbeat of personal and parish life. Sunday Vision contains experienced-shaped reflections...

The Sunday You’ve Been Hungry For: A Vision for the Mass That Doesn’t Leave Anyone Outside

Once you have tasted what Sunday can truly be, you cannot unfind that hunger. I know this from the inside. For years I was the first voice people heard as they entered Sunday Mass, and the last voice as they left — welcoming the scattered, sending the gathered. That rhythm of living Sunday to Sunday got into my bones. And it ruined me, in the best possible way. Because once you've experienced Sunday as a living pulse — as the centre of a...