Daily Reflections

In today’s gospel reading, Jesus relates to the large crowd gathered around him the challenges of producing good harvests.

Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Benedict, honoring his 1,500-year legacy as Father of Western Monasticism, and the patron saint of Europe.

I’m surrendering yet again, allowing the river of God’s love to flow through and around me, and continuing to chip away my notion of and desire for control.

I imagine the Women of Galilee as close companions of Jesus, standing by the edges of the crowd answering the questions of women who hear Jesus and sharing with them their insights gained by their many experiences with him.

I should spend more time at God’s altar, where I can look beyond myself and raise my concern for others, familiar and unfamiliar.

Thank you, God, for all the gifts you give me today and help me connect with all the beautiful gifts you present me each day.

They recognized the error of their ways only to descend and shift to a wall that gave them the consolation of living their authentic self, a self totally dependent on God.

He is Emanuel, “God With Us,” who has come to share in all that we must bear as creatures on this Earth.

God’s love is fresh, new, abundant; God is forgiving, generous, loving.  Jesus challenges them to “think outside the box”.

While faith is not a matter of ‘proofs’ being available, nevertheless, Thomas helps us (as does the traditional story) to see the intimate and necessary connection between the Passion and the new life of Resurrection.