Daily Reflections

March 18

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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…

March 17

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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…

March 16

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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…

March 15

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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…

March 14

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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.…

March 13

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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…

March 12

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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…

March 11

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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…

March 10

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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…

March 9

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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…