Spiritual Reflections

In the early 1980s, before joining Loretto, my housemate and I agreed to take in a drug and alcohol addicted 15-year-old who had been on the streets prostituting herself to…

Jesus asked, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter responded, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” For once in his life, Peter got…

Midrash is expansive exposition, interpretation and explanation of the text. The facts might be a little misremembered, but the teaching is true. That’s what I remember learning in Scripture class.…

For the past several Sundays, St. Matthew the Evangelist has been weaving the story of Jesus’ ministry as teacher.  He has been traveling from town to town publicly giving his…

This has always been a special day for me. I had the privilege of visiting Mount Tabor, the very place where this event took place. It is a fairly high…

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field. What do we treasure enough that we would sell all we have to buy that field? When I…

Today’s Gospel is very complete because Jesus explains it quite well when the disciples ask Him to explain the parable to them.  However, as we read it in our own…

Our readings this morning both challenge and reassure us.  We’re challenged to cooperate with change and reassured that God is with us calling forth life. The Gospel of Matthew was…

Five hundred years before Jesus was born, Zechariah, a prophet in his time, wrote about how Jerusalem and Zion would be saved. He was living in a time when the…

2 Kings 4:8-16         Romans 6:3-11         Matthew 10:37-42                   Good morning.  I want first to thank you all for your encouragement and prayers while…

Jeremiah 20:10-13, Matthew 10:26-33 “Fear no one,” we just heard read at the beginning of today’s Gospel. Jesus said to the Twelve, “Fear no one.” To back up this command,…

Once at the St. Louis Catholic Worker the woman who had volunteered to give the homily forgot. So, at this point in the service she said, “The Gospel speaks for…