Prayerful reflections to help you connect with God through daily Scripture and the Passionist charism written by members of our Passionist Family.
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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…
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…