Tag Archive: #reflection

Though Trials, God Calls Us to a Deeper Faith

2nd Sunday of Lent – Year B After the Transfiguration, Jesus told Peter, James, and John not to speak of the event until after He had risen from the dead. “So the Apostles kept the matter to themselves, questioning what [read more...]

This Lent, We Embrace Our Desert, Reflect on God’s Loving Presence

1st Sunday of Lent – Year B  Lent has begun, and we will spend the next 40 days preparing for the most important feast in the Church: Easter. In order to prepare for his public ministry, Jesus Himself spent 40 [read more...]

Christ: Uniter, Healer and Restorer

6th Sunday Ordinary Time – Year B In the Book of Leviticus, God commanded that those who were infected with leprosy be cast out of society. This disease was so terrible and there was no cure for it, so the [read more...]

Make/Take Time for Quiet Prayer with Jesus

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Yr B  Growing up with Mary and Joseph, Jesus surely prayed with them. In Jewish society, it was customary for families to pray together. In fact, the daily life of the Jewish people was [read more...]

We Must Preserve Human Dignity to Experience God’s Love

2nd Sunday Ordinary Time – Yr B  In the world, if we want to reach some goal and want to succeed, then we must be constantly ready and able to learn something new. We must be cunning and quick to [read more...]

A Reflection On Christ’s Baptism

Baptism of the Lord Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Many of us might be wondering why Jesus, who was sinless, needed to be baptized. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “Our Lord [read more...]

The Magi Honored Christ, As Must We

When I was first married, we worked in my wife’s family greenhouses over Christmas break. It was a pleasant time, the sun and the warmth under the glass. We were not moving poinsettias around. Mostly we were working with immature [read more...]

Third Sunday of Advent: A Time to Rejoice!

3rd Sunday of Advent – Year B Gaudete!  Rejoice!  Today, on the third Sunday of Advent, we celebrate Gaudete Sunday, Latin for “Rejoice” (who knew my Latin classes would pay off so well!).  It is an earnest call from the [read more...]

We Gather With Joy!

Christmas 2020 Today we gather in our Church with great joy to celebrate the birth of Jesus. To some people, Jesus is an unwelcome intruder. Herod and the Pharisees are a perfect example of those who had this point of [read more...]

Second Sunday of Advent: PEACE

The second week, there are two candles and we remember that Christ said, “Where there are two or more of you gathered in my Name, there also shall I be.” Advent Prayer: Lord, as we enter into the second week [read more...]