Posts by Clara Santoro

Reflection Jesus proclaimed a radical message about God’s love and offered a radical invitation to love one another without condition – to love those who are different from ourselves. In a…

Reflection Your light must shine before others,that they may see your good deeds and glorify God.Matthew 5:13-16 it’s easy to be saintly and let our light shine in the midst…

Reflection “Enlightenment is the ability to see beyond all the things we make God to find God. We make religion God and so fail to see godliness where religion is…

Reflection For a follower of Christ, living is not in the appearance of things but in their substance. We are not expected to imitate those who exercise power over others…

Reflection Once we give up our notion of how life “should be,” we free ourselves to experience the abundance of the lives we do have. What keeps many of us…

Reflection  Fear is an embodiment of our ancient fight-or-flight response.  Although this is an essential protective instinct to assure survival in a real danger, it can be easily manipulated to…

Reflection In our prayer we seek to encounter the Presence of God. We tend to think of the God who is Mystery as somewhere beyond us, a goal to be…

Feast of the PurificationCandlemas Day Reflection The Feast of the Purification, often called Candlemas, commemorates the presentation of Jesus in the temple, which, as Jewish law required, took place 40…

Reflection Christians have viewed the Beatitudes as a new ethic or moral code. But they are more than that.  Jesus was challenging his contemporaries to live according to God’s reign,…

Reflection In this troubled and troubling world we are continually forced to choose sides or else risk indifference or complicity by virtue of inaction. But taking sides also perpetuates a…