Daily Reflections
What kind of a plant are you? A little flowering rose? A big tree with lots of delicious fruit hanging on the branches? A little weed, which for some strange reason my little dog likes to nibble? I hope you are a big fruitful Catholic tree, providing goodness and beauty…
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Being a Christian is not easy, and more especially in the present age of free thinking. It is a life of suffering and trials. But it still remains the best type of living because it assures the greatest blessings and the best future. Jesus alerts all who follow him that…
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Years ago, while traveling through Florida on one of many apostolic trips, my fellow consecrated sister and I got lost. Being poor missionaries in the early 2000’s, we didn’t have a Garmin or any other electronic mapping device, so we relied on a shoebox full of atlases and Triple A…
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My dear friends, Christ speaks in parables in today’s gospel. His first parable addresses the problem of sin, good, and evil in his kingdom. Ordinarily, the Pharisees believed that the Messiah should be for saints only and not for sinners. But Christ disagrees with them and their beliefs. He wants…
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Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Mary Magdalene; the first one to witness the resurrection of Christ, and a witness also to the transforming power of God’s love, manifested in Jesus Christ. Her testimony of life is so important that, in June 2016, while the Church celebrated the…
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During the past two or three weeks the gospels of the Mass have shown us contrasts. There are contrasts between Christ and the leaders of Israel, contrasts between those who are willing to follow him and those who close their hearts to the Gospel message, contrasts between the healing power…
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Today’s Mass readings are rich with the promises of freedom for the fearful, the overwhelmed, and those held in bondage and oppression. In the first reading, God says to Moses, “I Am who am….tell the children of Israel, I Am sent me to you.” God IS. As I take this…
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Sometimes God raises up a special missionary who will shape the destiny of an entire nation. Early in the book of Exodus, Moses encounters the marvelous sight of a bush on fire yet not consumed. He draws near and has an encounter with God, who bids him go to Pharaoh…
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The future “liberator” of the Jewish people from Egypt is a “liberated” himself, one who has experienced the condition of a slave and faced the danger of death even from birth. Moses is first “liberated” by Pharaoh’s daughter from the waters, as we read in the First Reading of today…
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There is a fearful desire to be separated from beauty because we see ourselves more clearly in its light. If we have not the fortitude to stand firm in its purifying fire, based in the truth of God’s mercy, we will turn away, or worse, we will attack the conduits…
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