Reflection for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time B
Job 38:1-4, 8-11 (RM) or 1-11 (RCL); Psalm 107; 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 (RM) or 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 (RCL); Mark 4:35-41. In 1968, the university where I did my doctoral studies…
Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time B
Genesis 3:8-15; Psalm 92 (RM) or 130 (RCL); 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 (RM) or 2 Cor 4:13-5:1 (RCL); Mark 3:20-35. It wasn’t during the ten years I lived in Europe, but…
Reflection for the Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time / Pentecost 3 B
Genesis 3:8-15; Psalm 92 (RM) or 130 (RCL); 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 (RM) or 2 Cor 4:13-5:1 (RCL); Mark 3:20-35. It wasn’t during the ten years I lived in Europe, but…
A Reflection on Declining Church Attendance
Deuteronomy 5:12-15; Psalm 81; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12; Mark 2:23-3:6 (RCL.) “Here is how we see the Sabbath,” said my Jewish colleague one day. “Six days a week you walk out…
Corpus Christi: The Body and Blood of Christ
Exodus 24: 3-8; Psalm 116; Hebrews 9: 11-15; Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26 (RM) “So what’s wrong with magic?” asked Amy, a bright young philosophy-minded student, in the Sacraments of Initiation…
The Trinity as a Dance
Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 (RM) or Isaiah 6:1-8 (RCL); Psalm 33 (RM) or 29 (RCL); Romans 8:14-17; Matthew 28:16-20 (RM) or John 3:1-17 (RCL.) It’s been said that God made humankind…
Theology and Star Trek: Reflection for Pentecost Sunday B
Acts 2:1-11 (RM) or 1-21 (RCL; Psalm 104; I Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Galatians 5:16-25 (RM) or Romans 8:22-27 (RCL); John 20:19-23 or John 15: 26-27, 16:12-15 (RM) or John…
Reflection for the Feast of the Ascension B
Acts 1: 1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 4:1-13 (RM) or Eph 1:15-23 (RCL); Mark 16: 15-20 (RM) or Luke 24:44-53 (RCL.) Life must have been so much simpler when the earth…
Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter B
Acts 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48 (RM) or 44-48 (RCL); Psalm 98; 1 John 4: 7-10 (RM) or 1 John 5: 1-6 (RCL); John 15: 9-17. These past few weeks our…
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Easter B
Acts 9: 26-31 (RM) or Acts 8: 26-40 (RCL); Psalm 22; 1 John 3: 18-24 (RM) or 1 John 4: 7-21 (RCL); John 15: 1-8. “After a while it really…