When Love Becomes Action
Reflection for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time A / Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost A / Reformation Readings: Exodus 22: 21-27 (RM in Canada) or 20-26 (RM in the U.S.)…
Stop Trafficking! – A Forum for Advocacy and Action
Since beginning ministry in the area of human trafficking, the Stop Trafficking! newsletter has made its way to my inbox on a monthly basis, and I always find some new…
Give to Caesar: Faith, Conscience, and the Cost of Discipleship
Reflection for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost A Readings: Isaiah 45: 1, 4-6 (RM) or 1-7 (RCL); Psalm 96; 1 Thessalonians1: 1-5b (RM) or…
A Manubu girl performing a dance during the Kahimunan Festival in Butuan City, Caraga, Philippines
(Wikimedia Commons)
Forty Years with the Menubu Dulangan People: A Time to Reflect
This article is written in honor of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (August 9). In 2027, we will celebrate 40 years of being with the Menubu Dulangan people…
Finding Inner Peace in a Troubled World
Reflection for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost A Readings: Isaiah 25: 6-10a (RM) or 1-9 (RCL); Psalm 23; Philippians 4: 12-14, 19-20 (RM) or…
Leaving: A Poem
I wrote this poem around 1993, and it was published in that same year under the title “RNDM Poetry”. Sr. June Lenzen was the editor. It was part of a…
What Should the Church Hold On To and Let Go Of?
Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time / Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost A Readings: Isaiah 5: 1-7; Psalm 80; Philippians 4: 6-9 (RM) or 3:4b-14 (RCL); Matthew 21: 33-43…