Spiritual Reflections
These are reflections given by Loretto members at Sunday services.
Matthew 10:37-42 What I’ll be saying this morning can’t really be called a homily. I won’t be teaching anything; it’s just my own reflection on a Gospel passage that troubles me, and…
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,…
Today’s feast of Corpus Christi is about sacraments. It encourages us to reflect on the ways God uses the most simple human realities to bring us to the holy, how…
One of my favorite Peanuts comics shows Linus, Lucy and Charlie Brown looking at the clouds and reporting what they see. Linus sees Beethoven, Lucy sees the Statue of Liberty…
Recently, in my reading I came across this sentence that caught my attention: We like to think that we base our beliefs on evidence, but far more often we arrange…
These days of the Easter season are filled with remarkable events as recorded in the Scriptures. Sister Jeanne Dueber calls these events to our attention through her Stations of Life…
In Matthew’s Gospel, in the section of the Gospel right before what we heard a few minutes ago, the women have just told the disciples, the eleven, that Jesus is…
John 14:15-21 Today’s Gospel takes us right into the heart, the human heart, and the core, the center of Jesus’ message. Jesus is preparing his disciples for his departure, and…
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 2:14, 36-41 Psalm 23 (24) 1 Peter 2:20-25 John 10:1-10 Last Sunday we had the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus and how they recognized…
I love this Gospel (Luke 24:13-35), so many things about it, even the ring of the phrase “on the road to Emmaus.” So two of Jesus’ disciples were on the…
“The vocation to be a Sister of Loretto, therefore, shows itself in a spirit of courage and generosity marked by trust in God, ingenuity and the self-reliance, made firm by…