Scripture: Acts 25:13b-21John 21:15-19 Reflection: …Do you love me?…Feed my sheep… Three times, Jesus asks Peter ‘do you love me’; three times, following Peter’s ‘yes, Lord’ Jesus commands ‘feed my sheep’. What is it about ‘three times?’ We can make…
Scripture: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11John 17:20-26 Reflection: No doubt the Chief Priests and the whole Sanhedrin were excited to have a chance to get Paul condemned by Roman authority but surely they must have also been a bit nervous. After all,…
Scripture: Acts 20:28-38John 17:11b-19 Reflection: Saving Truth “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. JN 17:17 Today’s Gospel tells us that we are made holy by the truth of God’s word. Our culture today is in many ways very…
Scripture: Acts 20:17-27John 17:1-11a Reflection: In our Gospel reading, we hear the continuation of Jesus’ discourse with His disciples at the Last Supper. Here, Jesus offers a prayer to the Father, recognizing that the moment has come for God’s plan…
Scripture: Acts 19:1-8John 16:29-33 Reflection: Lord, Sometimes I feel so fatigued by our increasingly divisive world of war, dissension, senseless cruelty, dismissively abrasive language and blocked minds. A bewildering world where a teen can run up behind an old man, slap…
The Ascension of the Lord Scripture: Acts 1:1-11Ephesians 1:17-23Matthew 28:16-20 Reflection: When I was in Catholic elementary school, I was fascinated by paintings of the Ascension showing the apostles standing there looking up at the sky as Jesus ascended into…
Scripture: Acts 18: 23-28John 16: 23b-28 Reflection: In our first reading this morning we meet an interesting married couple, Priscilla and Aquila. In today’s reading they clearly had a well-established reputation for being experts on the early Christian beliefs about…
Scripture: Acts 18:9-18John 16:20-23 Reflection: As I read the gospel of John today, I think of my own life experiences. When we suffer grief, maybe the loss of a loved one or some other devastating change in our life, we may…
Scripture: Acts 18:1-8John 16:16-20 Reflection: As we get close to the end of the Easter Season, our readings take a turn towards the Ascension of Jesus and then to Pentecost. On this day in many places around the world, the…
Scripture: Acts 16:22-34John 16:5-11 Reflection: The Holy Spirit Empowers “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the aHelper (parak’laetos) will not come to you; but…