Spiritual Reflections

Exodus 19:2-6         Romans 5:6-11         Matt 9:36-10:8 This year the Gospel of Matthew had been leading us through the mysteries of life and faith.  The year opened last Advent with Matthew’s first chapters,…

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. Or maybe they will use the time to prepare their…

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 of God.  Many have had this experience: Most evenings my…

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 gathered behind locked doors, like we might be late at…

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 prayer very dense and would call it  “the why use…

“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 I would write this homily for the Feast of the…

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 had a heart attack and it became necessary for her…

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 reading from Acts shows the Twelve getting organized so that…

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 is no salvation through anyone else.  There is no other…

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 the likes of which we have never seen before. What…

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 were called Doubting Mary Ann. But now – I’ve paid…

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 going to Jerusalem. It was Passover time. The two disciples…