Tag Archive: #reflection

Worth The Effort

In this Sunday’s Gospel we hear the parable about the sower. Jesus speaks through parables because He wants to push us to search for the truth within the parables and within our lives. He wants us to search for Him, [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...]

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...]

Is It Possible to Pray Too Much?

How much prayer is too much prayer? Our relationship with God is the most important relationship we will ever have. But what about when our devotions clash with our responsibilities to our loved ones? Or attendance to other obligations? In [read more...]

God’s Greatest Gift

What we think of as our lives—the joys and sorrows, the ups and downs of work, marriage, schooling, religious practice and everything that occupies us—is nothing more than the spiritual, physical, emotional, and moral desert in which the Israelites found [read more...]