Reflection for Easter 2024 — Click here for the Scripture readings Friends, Pope John Paul II woke the world to a whole new vision on Sunday, November 30, 1986, during his visit to Australia. He offered a world facing a...
Reflection for the readings of December 31, 2023 — the Feast of The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Year B 2023 Friends, one can only wonder what families with members with same-sex attraction feel about the backlash to...
Reflection on the readings of October 29, 2023, the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Friends, in the past couple of years, Catholic media has been agog with anything newsworthy about Pope Francis. Some have reported correctly and have sought to...
A reflection on the readings of Sunday, August 27, 2023 — The 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time Friends, Jesus is Lord. What an audacious statement to make in Caesarea Philippi! A city known for its temple to the Pan God and...
Friends, how desperately we often want perfection! We want our looks, our lives, reputations, children, friends, Church, and jobs to be so perfect that we are caught up in the pursuit of perfection and not God. Could this be the...
Friends, I don’t know if you noticed, but we all walked into a bare Church. Silence greeted us. The altar is stripped of all its decorations. It is a skeletal altar that confronts us with the reality of death. God...
“The God who is with us, is the God who abandons us.” These words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer are so ironic. The God who is with us, who stands in solidarity with our human realities of pain and suffering, is the...
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