Scripture: 2 Corinthians 11:18, 21-30Matthew 6:19-23 Reflection: I am writing this reflection a day after Juneteenth, and that leads me to reflect on the second half of our Gospel reading in a particular way. Jesus says: “The lamp of the…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 11:1-11Matthew 6:7-15 Reflection: In today’s gospel, Jesus offers a class on prayer. In this passage from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches his disciples, the crowd that assembled that day, and now us what has aptly…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11Matthew 6: 1-6,16-18 Reflection: In the late-40s A. D. a famine spread across Judea and Christians in Jerusalem were in dire need. The leaders of the Jerusalem Church, James, Cephas, and John asked Paul to assist the…
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:1-9Matthew 5:43-48 Reflection: “…I say to you…Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father…” These past few weeks we have been reading the famous Sermon on…
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…