Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10Matthew 5:38-42 Reflection: “As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.For he says: In an acceptable time, I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped…
Scripture: Exodus 19:2-6aRomans 5:6-11Matthew 9:36-10:8 Reflection: Today’s Gospel gifts us three short vignettes as we see Jesus seeing and responding to a human need. First Jesus has pity on the crowds of people coming to him. Matthew’s descriptive image, as…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21Luke 2:41-51 Reflection: “This means that if anyone is in Christ,” Paul tells the Christian community at Corinth, they are “a new creation.” Those words, spoken nearly two thousand years ago, resonate with us today. They touch…
Scripture: Deuteronomy 7:6-111 John 4:7-16Matthew 11:25-30 Reflection: Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and all our Scripture readings speak of God’s love. In our first reading, Moses reminds the people that they are not the…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:15-4:1, 3-6Matthew 5:20-26 Reflection: During the pandemic, there were thousands of deaths from COVID alone, plus the “usual” deaths due to other causes. In my field, we face a tsunami of complicated grief. One cause of complication…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:4-11Matthew 5:17-19 Reflection: Law 101 Law is something we absorb early in life. We learn what we are to do as well as the things we are not to do before we can ask, ‘why’, before we…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:18-22Matthew 5:13-16 Reflection: In our Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples that they “.. are the salt of the earth” (v. 13). Salt adds flavor to an otherwise bland or tasteless food item. It simply makes it taste…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:1-7 Matthew 5:1-12 Reflection: When pondering the Word, it is important to understand the context in which the Word is written in a given Gospel story. The Word is other-centered. Yes, in God’s goodwill, we are recipients…
Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a1 Corinthians 10:16-17John 6:51-58 Reflection: The Mass as Dangerous Memory There is memory.And there is dangerous memory. How do these two terms differ? And what relevance do they have with today’s feast, The Solemnity of the Body…
Scripture: Tobit 11:5-17Mark 12:35-37 Reflection: Story Tellers of the Happy Ending We are finishing one of the most beautiful stories of the Old Testament, the story of Tobit. Well crafted, we have a love story, one of human suffering and…