General
Reflection on the Feast of Corpus Christi (the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)
I suspect that a goodly number of Catholics will go to church today just because it is their obligation. Maybe they will pray a little or mutter a few responses.…
Read MoreReflection on the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
The Trinity: Father, Son and Spirit, one God, three persons. Nobody understands what that really means. We proclaim it as a truth, but there is no way to capture all…
Read MoreReflection on Pentecost Sunday
Acts 2:1-11 1Cor 12:3b-7,12-13 John 20:19-23 Good morning and welcome to Pentecost! I am going to ask that we use our imaginations this morning to imagine us as Jesus’ disciples…
Read MoreReflection on the Seventh Sunday of Easter
This Gospel reading from John is the longest prayer in all the Bible. Somewhere around the 17th century it came to be called “the Priestly Prayer.” I personally find this…
Read MoreReflection on the Feast of the Ascension
“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Amen.” When I said…
Read MoreReflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter
I can remember clearly several experiences of my grandmother’s amazement at new technologies. She was born in 1909, and she learned how to drive late in life after my grandfather…
Read MoreReflection on the Fifth Sunday of Easter
John 14:1-12 These Easter days are so full of energy and life. The disciples are off and running to tell the various communities about Jesus and about “the Way.” The…
Read MoreReflection on the Fourth Sunday of Easter
Acts 4:8-12 1 John 3:1-2 John 10:11-18 “Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said, ‘It was in the name of Jesus Christ … that this man … is healed. There…
Read MoreReflection on the Third Sunday of Easter
Several weeks ago, I was struck by the introductory prayer to an LCWR Zoom presentation. It was a prayer by Jan Richardson that says, “There is something on the horizon…
Read MoreReflection on the Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy)
When I was younger, I was envious of the apostle Thomas’s access to evidence of Jesus’ resurrection. Wouldn’t it be great to be sure – even if forever after I…
Read MoreReflection on Palm Sunday
In today’s Gospel reading Jesus sends two of his disciples off to get a colt in the nearby village. He and his disciples were heading to Jerusalem. Many people were…
Read MoreReflection on the Fifth Sunday of Lent
In the northernmost portion of Pakistan, north of the capital of Islamabad, is the Balti region, named for Baltistan. Here Pakistan borders Afghanistan and China. In 2006, Greg Mortenson wrote…
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