Scripture: Genesis 3:1-8Mark 7:31-37 Reflection: When I was in grade school, it was a big deal to get one’s hands on a Playboy magazine. The gloss and glitz! The provocative photos and enticing article titles! Groups of us would gather…
Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25Mark 7:24-30 Reflection: More Than a Woman’s Intuition We meet two women in our readings today. We know the first not by name yet, but more in the marrow in our bones. The Syro-Phoenician woman we know just…
Scripture: Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17Mark 7:14-23 Reflection: In the time of Jesus, one of the preoccupations amongst the doctors of the law was that of ‘cleanliness’ or more so ‘uncleanliness’. There seemed morbid fascination with how many ways one could be…
Scripture: Genesis 1:20-2:4aMark 7:1-13 Reflection: And so it happened.God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.Evening came, and morning followed–the sixth day. -Genesis 1:31 “I think LeRoy is trying to tell Dan something,” said Sister…
Scripture: Genesis 1: 1-19Mark 6:53-56 Reflection: Recent research on the neurological effects of trauma and its healing reveals something psychotherapists have struggled with for decades. The restoring of wholeness to victims of trauma…whether major traumas suffered by soldiers, slaves or…
Scripture: Isaiah 58:7-101 Corinthians 2:1-5Matthew 5:13-16 Reflection: Today’s gospel immediately follows that classic, all-familiar, sermon on the mount from Matthew’s Gospel which we heard last weekend. After looking over the crowds and calling them blessed, in today’s gospel he looks…
Scripture: Hebrews 13:1-8Mark 6:14-29 Reflection: Today’s reading has been the subject of numerous theatrical and cinematic interpretations – understandably perhaps given the weakness of Herod, the deviousness of Herodias and the allure of Salome’s dancing – all ingredients for great…
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Scripture: Malachi 3:1-4Hebrews 2:14-18Luke 2: 22-40 Reflection: People who have helped me grow the most have been very blunt with me about my shortcomings; and they have challenged me to do things I…
Editors’ note: It is with great sadness that we mourn the death of our Passionist brother, Father Don Senior, CP, who died on November 8, 2022. We have published Father Don’s Scripture reflections over the past several years. As we look…
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-4Mark 5:21-43 Reflection: Happy Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time! So, today’s Gospel really interests me. There’s just so much there!! A desperate father runs up and begs Jesus to go with him so he may…