Daily Reflections
Reflection One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.John 9:1-41 Blindness is a spiritual metaphor. How often our misery is caused because we cannot…
Reflection St. Patrick is known and admired all over the world as the young slave who became an unlikely hero, the shy boy transformed into a courageous missionary. Patrick came…
Reflection Each of us is meant to be a spark of light in this wondrous creation. We and all living things are truly marvels! To live in daily wonder at…
Reflection When you come into contact with the Holy, there can be no barrier between you and the earth on which you stand, the earth which God created and called…
Reflection “The biblical meaning of “repent” is not primarily contrition but resolve. In the Hebrew Bible, to repent means primarily to return to God. Its metaphorical home is the exile.…
Reflection The real challenge of Jesus’ teaching on loving one’s enemies is not “loving” some group assigned a label based on politics or sociology or economics or “loving” some remote…
Reflection Today’s Gospel recounts the story of an encounter at a well between Jesus and a Samaritan woman. That they would speak to one another was highly unusual. But he…
Reflection Lent calls us to stop using religion as an excuse for not examining our real motives for everything we do in life including the spiritual. Lent calls us to…
Reflection The light of truth in Jesus is a blinding one: It is not enough to regret evil, he shows us. We must do something, each of us, to denounce…
Reflection Jesus was a man of vision concerned primarily for the “reign of God” not as a concept but as a living ever transforming reality that would bring justice to…