Scripture: Romans 7:18-25a Luke 12:54-59 Reflection: Lord, it is not easy to accept that I don’t understand something. I mean, there are vast tracts of brilliant interpretations from timeless theologians who attempt to explain every word of the bible, especially…
Scripture: Romans 6:19-23Luke 12:49-53 Reflection: Jesus says to his disciples in today’s gospel from Luke (12:49-53): “I have come to set the earth on fire,and how I wish it were already blazing! Do you think that I have come to…
Scripture: Romans 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21Luke 12:35-38 Reflection: Welcoming Jesus A new word in our modern English is “woke”. It means a person is awake but with an extreme connotation to left wing philosophy. I love the word “woke” but…
Scripture: Isaiah 45:1, 4-61 Thessalonians 1:1-5bMatthew 22:15-21 Reflection: In our Gospel reading for Sunday (Matthew 22:15-21), the Pharisees, who have been trying to trap Jesus into saying something that would get Him into trouble, come up with a question they…
Scripture: Romans 4:13, 16-18Luke 12; 8-12 Reflection: He believed, hoping against hope… –Romans 4:18 Have you ever had days where nothing was going in your favor. Things go from bad to worse. Maybe you lost your job or received an…
Feast of St. Paul of the Cross Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-9I Corinthians 1:17-25Matthew 9: 35-10:1 Reflection: Today, we Passionists celebrate the feast of our Holy Founder, St. Paul of the Cross. I know that many of you have a devotion to…
Scripture: Romans 3:21-30Luke 11:47-54 Reflection: This is an age of boasting. Boasting is everywhere these days, but perhaps especially on social media where boasting knows no bounds. Athletes boast. So do celebrities and politicians. But so do most of us.…
Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:10-17bLuke 10:1-9 Reflection: “…The harvest is abundant…I am sending you…into whatever household you enter, first say, Peace…” I am not a big gardener, my parents did not have a flower or vegetable garden – there wasn’t space…
Scripture: Romans 1:16-25Luke 11:37-41 Reflection Our gospel today zeroes in on the dangers of “limp religion,” an approach to religion that is easy, reassuring, and even uplifting, but so focused on the trivial that it lacks the power to take…
Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-10aPhilippians 4:12-14, 19-20Matthew 22:1-14 Reflection: What does heaven look like? Jesus never gives a direct answer. Instead, he compares it to something earthy, something real, as he does in today’s gospel. “The kingdom of heaven may be likened…