Reflections on the Word: Saturday of the First Week of Advent – December 5, 2020
We are reminded that Advent and Christmas are first and foremost not about us. This liturgical season is here to remind us that Jesus is asking us to join with him in bringing about God’s Reign of justice and righteousness.
Reflections on the Word: Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time – October 31, 2020
On this Halloween, and as we are about to recall the lives of well-known saints and the souls of recently departed who shined with their “true selves,” let us pray for the ability to take off our spiritual masks, so that we can be the “true self” that God created us to be!
Reflections on the Word: Saturday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time – October 3, 2020
In today’s first reading, the saga of the Job from the Old Testament comes to a close. Having endured great suffering and ridicule from his friends, he has encountered the living God face-to-face and finds God affirming him. Job dared to question God, but did so in faith. That faith – even in the midst of unimaginable sorrow – allowed him a glimpse of God’s bigger plan.
Reflections on the Word: Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist – August 29, 2020
God chooses those we don’t think about to be sources of wisdom. God chooses people who we overlook to do what is right. God isn’t on “both sides” – God is on the side of right and of justice and reduces to nothing those who think they’re the greatest – even frightened puppet kings like Herod. Because, genuine Christians know that only God is great.
Reflection on the Word: Memorial of the Queenship of Mary – August 22, 2020
Let us pray for the courage of faith to be like the Mother of God, bearing Christ to one another and in our world.
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