The Big Rocks of Life
Let me begin with a story. A wise woman brought a glass bowl and set it on a table in front of the group. Then she produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into...
View ArticleWoman of Faith and Courage: The Disciple of Samaria
The story of the woman of Samaria (John 4:4-42) who met Jesus at a well is familiar to us. She is the one that engaged Jesus in a lengthy conversation that moved from drawing water to praying on the...
View ArticleFeast of the Baptism of the Lord – The Voice of God
“Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. John tried to prevent him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?’ Jesus said to him in reply, ‘Allow...
View ArticleLent, Part 2: A Sense-ational Season!
“The Church is essentially human and divine, visible but endowed with invisible realities…” Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), 2 The Catholic Church has traditionally relied...
View ArticleLent Part 3: The Signs and Symbols of the Easter Vigil
The Easter Triduum begins on Holy Thursday and concludes with the Eucharist of Easter Sunday. The Easter Vigil, celebrated on Holy Saturday, begins at night with the lighting of the new fire, ideally...
View Article2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Spiritual Gifts
“Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ So they filled them to the brim. Then he...
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