Among the Wheat and the Weeds
Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Wisdom 12: 13, 16-19 (RM); Psalm 86; Romans 8: 26-27 (RM) or 12-25 (RCL); Matthew 13:…
Seeds of Hope
Reflection for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A / Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Isaiah 55: 10-11 (RM) or 10-13 (RCL); Psalm 65; Romans 8: 18-23 (RM) or 1-11…
The Wisdom That Gives Rest
Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Zechariah 9: 9-10 (RM) or 9-12 (RCL); Psalm 145 (RM) or (RCL); Romans 8: 9, 11-13…
A Cup of Water, A Heart of Hope
Reflection for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 2 Kings 4: 8-11, 14-16a (RM) or Jeremiah 28: 5-9 (RCL); Psalm 89 (RM) Romans 6:…
Mary at Cana: A Sign of Hope
“Would it be outlandish to say that the mother of Jesus, in effect, gave birth to the first sign of who he was as divine? Birthed his public ministry? Accompanied…
Rooted Beyond Fear
Reflection for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Jeremiah 20:10-13 (RM) or 7-13 (RCL); Psalm 69; Romans 5: 12-15 (RM) or 6: 1b-11 (RCL);…
Holiness That Radiates Outward
Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time / Third Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Exodus 19: 1-6a (RM in Canada) or 2-6a (RM in the U.S.) or 2-8a (RCL); Psalm…
Made Flesh: The Intimacy of Divine Presence
Reflection for Corpus Christi / Body and Blood of Christ or Second Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Deuteronomy 8: 2-3, 14-16 (RM) or Hosea 5: 15 – 6:6 (RCL); Psalm 147…
Born from Darkness and Water
Reflection for Trinity Sunday A Readings: Exodus 34: 4b-6, 8-9 (RM) or Genesis 1:1-2:4a (RCL); Canticle from Daniel 3 (RM) or Psalm 104 (RCL); 2 Corinthians 13: 11-13 (RM) or…
Pentecost: The Spirit That Sets Free
The Feast of Pentecost Readings: Acts 2:1-11 (RM) or 1-21 (RCL); Psalm 104; 1 Corinthians 12: 3b-7, 12-13 (RM) or 3b-13 (RCL); John 20: 19-23. There’s Pentecost and then there’s,…