Recently I got to take an intensive course on poetry and prayer. The friar teaching my course expressed how meaningful the psalms can be when we take on the lens of poetry or storytelling. The psalms can tell and portray many things and in a like manner, there are many…
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True Riches: My dear brother, let me explain what I have done. I long to share this gift with you and be reconciled with you and we will love and care for each other and learn together as we did when we were children. It came about when I met…
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In today’s Gospel Reading, we hear the parable of the Sower. “God’s word is the seed,” as Jesus teaches us in today’s Gospel (Luke 8:11), and yet his word will definitely bear more good fruit when it is planted on fertile ground, i.e., in someone who has first experienced God’s…
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The readings today touch on subjects that are key to the serious Christian disciple: the use of resources, true religion and the surpassing wisdom of Christ that leads to eternal and even temporal happiness. The Beatitudes beget beatitude. Sound Teaching In his letter to Timothy, St. Paul has strong words…
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I love this gospel reading from Luke. “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.” I pray those are the words I will hear when I enter eternity. This gospel reading is filled with hope for all sinners. While I believe God is very much a just God and reprimands…
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A few years ago, I had the privilege of being trained in a Montessori-style faith formation program called Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. In our training, I distinctly remember our Pentecost celebration. We solemnly processed around the classroom with our own individual, unlit candles, sang short, childlike hymns invoking the…
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Today’s Gospel reading is a tough one to swallow. It describes the return to life of the Son of Nain. The scene opens with a burial group carrying the only son of Nain (a biblical town) out to the graveyard. He is the only son of the lady in the…
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It was an interesting week with the computer. The latest mishap was Father’s laptop issues, coupled with an 18-hour drive from his “former parish” to a military base out East. Congratulations on the move! His reflection on his now lost Reflection for Today has to do with the Devotion of…
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Sisters and Brothers in Christ, today’s Scripture readings take us on journey into the transformative power of Divine Mercy. In his letter to Timothy, St Paul shows us what mercy can do with the heart of a sinner. In the Gospel, Jesus reminds His followers of their essential mission: to…
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