Trading the Jar for the Spring
A reflection on the readings for March 12, 2023, the Third Sunday of Lent. Catholicism in the US is at a very critical juncture at the moment. Just as an example, 20 years back, we used to have four sessions...
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Thirsting for Love
A reflection on the readings for March 12, 2023, the Third Sunday of Lent. “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty…” Jesus was not afraid to break through cultural boundaries in order to bring the...
The God of the Mountain is the God of the Valley and Plains
A reflection on the readings for March 5th, 2023, the Second Sunday of Lent. In today’s Gospel, we recall the Transfiguration, one of five major milestones in the gospel narrative about the life of Jesus, including his Baptism, Crucifixion, Resurrection,...
The grace to depend on God
A reflection on the readings for the First Sunday of Lent, February 26, 2023. At this year’s meeting of diocesan vocation directors from around the US, I attended a conference on teaching young men to discern whether they have a...
Lent: A Becoming
Ash Wednesday 2023 readings. Think about this for a minute. An entire people around the globe sets aside 40 days each year to live differently than they do the other 325 days. If we look at this merely as a...
Holiness is Relational
A reflection on the Scripture Readings for February 19, 2023 — the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Click here for the audio version. How many of you think that you are perfect? How many of you think you are holy? This...
Life, Happiness, and Longevity: A Choice
A reflection on the Scripture Readings of February 12, 2023 — the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. (Click here for the audio.) A headline grabbed my attention enroute during my flight from India. It said, “An 85-year Harvard study found...
Glorify your Heavenly Father
A reflection on the readings for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 5, 2023. Many of us have come across the acronym “AMDG,” and wondered what it meant. These four letters are often inscribed on the walls and over...
Let us not waste the gifts we have been given
The Readings for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Please forgive the tardiness of this post. Since it is the fifth Sunday of the month, our regularly scheduled reflection-writers were off the hook, and I dropped the ball in finding...
A Christian Response to Divisions
A reflection on the Sunday Readings for January 22, 2023 — the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time I am in India as I write this homily. I am in the state of Kerala, which is the center of the Eastern Rite Syro-Malabar...
The Challenge to Unite
A reflection on the Sunday Readings for January 22, 2023 — the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time As the Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs dawns upon us this weekend, we are blessed to witness some genuinely epic rivalries between...
Ordinary Holiness
A reflection on the scripture readings for January 15, 2023, the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Last Sunday, on the Feast of Epiphany, we reflected on the star that led the magi. I once preached on the Epiphany that in...
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