Homily Thirty-first Sunday Year B Reading 1: When we talk about our relationship to God, what words best express that reality? Fear and Love: two seemingly strong opposites. We began our reading with...
If the voice of the Lord seems angry with us or we are afraid to her his voice, we may be projecting our own self-guilt or self-condemnation upon the Lord. We perceive that...
Story: It is said that demons were sent to win souls away from God. One by one they were questioned by the demon-in-charge on the strategy each would use. One said that he...
Thirty-first Sunday Gospel B One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them disputing and saw how well Jesus had answered them, asked him, "Which is the first of all the...
Wasn't repentance the call of the O.T. Prophets? Circumcise your hearts. Return to the Lord, and he will return to you. Turn away from sin and turn back to the Lord your God....
We cannot understand God's love for us. His love is forever and unconditional. He may chastise us and discipline us but always because of his great love. We do not love ourselves or...
In the Scriptures we have many examples of God crying out the name of the person as he knocks at the door of his heart. In the Garden God cried out to Adam;...
Homily: Thirtieth Sunday Year B Reading 1: The prophet Jeremiah is in exile with the people. He sees the dejection of the people who now recognize that their chastisement is the result of...
He knocks at the door of our hears because of his great love for us. God reveals this love in many ways, by many examples and analogies: Creation; Incarnation; sanctification; he is the...
Thirtieth Sunday Ordinary Gospel Reflections B They came to Jericho. · Jericho is located about fifteen miles northeast of Jerusalem, five miles west of the Jordan River, and six miles north of the...
"Here I stand, knocking at the door. If anyone hears me calling and opens the door, I will enter his house and have supper with him, and he with me." Rev. 3:20 It...
How great is our God! How great is his creation! How great are we to be created in his own image and likeness, to be so loved by him, to be call good...
Since love is convey through signs: words and actions. Jesus became the sign of the Father’s love for us. It was hard for human beings to experience the visible sign of God’s love...
Homily: Twenty-ninth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Isaiah, sixth centuries before Jesus, led by the Spirit, prophesied about the future Servant of God who would suffer for others. In the last couple of...
Why did God create us in his image and likeness? Why did he create his goodness and beauty within us? Listen to Ephesians 1:4-6. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord...
Twenty-Ninth Sunday Ordinary Gospel Reflections B · The passage that precedes this in Mark’s Gospel is Jesus’ second prediction of his upcoming passion and death on the cross. Then James and John, the...
We are told in scripture that after each of the major elements of our created world came into existence by the word of God, God looked upon everything he had made and found...
