Daily Reflections
The first reading for today’s Mass, from the book of Wisdom, provides enough reflection for an entire notebook. The opening lines are a beautiful poetic description of God’s majesty and omnipotence. They are about as close as human language can come to describing the indescribable. After setting the stage by…
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Peter Recalls They were part of our world and we learned to step out of the way each time they swept across our paths – the Holy Ones, the Pharisees. Holiness was the fragrance that hung on their garments, alongside the jewels and golden tassels and you bowed your head…
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Chosen for a Mission Today’s Gospel reading puts us at the scene of the selection of the twelve Apostles from the crowd of people following Jesus. We know that Jesus was in dialogue with his Father prior to this action. We know the choices were the will of the Father.…
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When we are faced with challenges in life, we react in different ways. Either we lose hope, thinking that God and friends have deserted us and as a result abandon our goal. On the other hand, there is the possibility that we still hold on, with the belief that God…
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In the course of living this complex life, we sometimes fall into the danger of thinking that everything depends on our human power and human ingenuity. It is a danger because when one lives with such a frame of mind, one easily gets frustrated and sometimes falls into depression because…
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Love is one of those concepts that is constantly being delved into. It is a natural human desire to love and be loved. What is love? It is more than an emotion since the whole spectrum of emotions can be related to love. You can be happily or sadly in…
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Prayer of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector My dear friends, the liturgy of last Sunday exhorted us on the need to persistently pray with faith and good intention. And in response to that, two men in Jesus’ parable of today’s gospel, the Pharisee and the tax collector went up…
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Our Church literally depends on each one of us to be living in holiness. Whew, talk about a lot of pressure; however, it’s true. “Joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the Body’s growth and builds itself up in love.”…
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In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). And yet, in today’s Gospel, Jesus seems to proclaim something quite different: “Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I…
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