Scripture: Acts 13:13-25John 13:16-20 Reflection: Called to Witness Love Incarnate It’s the 4th week of Easter –and the Good News of Jesus Risen continues to spark new Life and Vitality in us and our world. Celebrating Easter brings with it…
Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle Scripture: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26John 15:9-17 Reflection: Today is the feast of Saint Matthias, the disciple who replaced Judas and filled the place of the 12th apostle. We know little about him beyond reading in Acts…
Scripture: Acts 11:19-26John 10:22-30 Reflection: One of my favorite things about the Easter season is that we are treated daily to reading from the Acts of the Apostles. The rich history of Christianity’s early beginnings, the ups and downs, the…
Scripture: Acts 11:1-18John 10:1-10 Reflection: “But a second time a voice from heaven answered, ‘What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’ This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky” Every…
Good Shepherd Sunday Scripture: Acts 13:14, 43-52Revelation 7:9, 14b-17John 10:27-30 Reflection: “Habemus papam!” The Cardinal Deacon proclaimed to the world on May 8, 2025. About an hour later, the new pope, Leo XIV, stepped out onto the central balcony of…
Scripture: Acts 9:31-42John 6:60-69 Reflection: Recently, my son Carl and I got into a late-night conversation about faith. Several years ago, their parish priest was charged with abusing boys. Carl had the horrific task of asking their 7-year-old son whether…
Scripture: Acts 9:1-20John 6:52-59 Reflection: Daring to Enter the Conversation As Jesus concludes speaking of Himself as the Bread of Life, John notes that Jesus was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. In Houston, Texas, the Rothko Chapel – dimly…
Scripture: Acts 8:26-40John 6:44-51 Reflection: It is one of those amazing Spring mornings when the sunlight glistening off the dew on the grass and the budding tree branches waving in the warm morning breeze that swells the heart and makes…
Scripture: Acts 8:1b-8John 6:35-40 Reflection: Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,because I came down from heaven not to do my own willbut the will of the one…
Scripture: Acts 7:51-8:1aJohn 6:30-35 Reflection: Decades ago, on cool May mornings with the smell of honeysuckle in the air, my grandmother and I walked a mile on a narrow rural road in Indiana to attend Mass at her parish. That…