First Sunday of Lent B
Feb 18, 2024
During the time of Covid-19 rainbows were everywhere. At St. Cecilia, when we moved into the parish hall, we had a painting of a rainbow by a boy from the parish, in front of the altar.
On this first Sunday of Lent, we hear about a rainbow as the sign of God’s covenant with God’s people.
"This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come,
of the covenant between me and you
and every living creature with you:
I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign
of the covenant between me and the earth.
When I bring clouds over the earth,
and the bow appears in the clouds,
I will recall the covenant I have made
between me and you and all living beings,
so that the waters shall never again become a flood
to destroy all mortal beings."
We find hope in the dark places of our lives. In the next few weeks we will hear about the transfiguration on Mt Tabor, in the third, fourth, and fifth Sundays of Lent we, with the Catechumens will hear about the nature of sin as we meet the woman at the well, the man born blind and Lazarus who is raised from the dead. In all these stories about the challenges of life we will find hope, like a rainbow, as the light of our God shines through. We will find the rainbows, or in the words of the green theologian, Kermit the Frog we find the rainbow connection:
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told, and some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong, wait and see
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection