Reflections

Get Anything Out of the Mass?

It’s been said that familiarity breeds contempt. For Catholics, I think there’s a temptation for familiarity to breed complacency. We are all susceptible of taking for granted that which is closest to us, including the Mass. While Sacred Tradition is [read more...]

Do Wives Have to be Submissive?

“Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22) Woah! Come again? On the list of controversial and misunderstood Bible verses, this is near the top. When it swings through in the cycle of Mass readings, folks [read more...]

Hierarchy of Values

In today’s Gospel, Jesus says: He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take [read more...]

Bible Study: Insightful Preview of Sunday’s Readings

This week, Kathleen Miller leads a Bible study on the book of Jeremiah focusing on a reading from the book where Jeremiah complains about his enemies who are looking for him to make a bad move. She explains that Jeremiah’s [read more...]

Consolation in Christ

This Sunday’s reading should reassure us of God’s love and bring us peace. When Jesus tells us that we are worth more to Him than many sparrows, this is clearly a drastic understatement. What the Lord tells us by His [read more...]

Bible Study: Insightful Preview of Sunday’s Readings

This week, Kathleen Miller leads the OLW Friday Morning Bible Study group in discussion of the journey of faith from the head to the heart — the longest and most important journey in the Church. They have been studying the [read more...]

Spiritual Fatherhood

Spiritual fatherhood is a vital role of every Catholic man— married or single. During June, in honor of Father’s Day, our prayer intentions are for men to strive to be spiritual fathers like St. Joseph. That all men protect, provide [read more...]

Anything But Ordinary

This weekend, after a rich season of solemnities, we return to ordinary time within the Church calendar. But, is any time really ordinary when our lives are filled with the beautiful mysteries of our faith and when we have a [read more...]

Bible Study: Insightful Preview of Sunday’s Readings

Kathleen Miller leads a Bible study on the feast of Corpus Christi, the body and blood of Christ. The participants pray and thank the Lord for everything they need for life, including Baptism, the Holy Spirit, water of baptism, food [read more...]

Father Gilbert’s Summer Challenge

In his final School Mass homily of the 2022-23 school year, Father Gilbert Mashurano issued a “Summer Challenge” to Our Lady of the Wayside students. He challenged them to let the light of Jesus Christ shine in them, everywhere they [read more...]