June 9, 2023
Tobit is one of my favorite books in the Bible – A father-son story – A very special marriage – A protective traveling companion — Faith, persistence, hope, and gratefulness – all based on love. The Scripture reading for Wednesday morning of Week I for the Liturgy of the Hours is taken from the 4th […]
June 8, 2023
We know Jack, a clown-faced Punch smile gyrating, bobblehead hiding in a box and, when instructed by a fairy tune, pops out and scares the screams out of children. Who doesn’t flinch at such a spectacle! Perhaps we go at people the same way. We wind them up, and some hideous version of their former […]
June 7, 2023
In today’s Gospel reading, the Pharisees try to trap Jesus and ask him to explain another minutia of the Law. He erases their question as no longer valid and then adds, rather profoundly, “God is the God of the living, not of the dead.” The mission given to Jesus by the Father was to announce […]
June 6, 2023
Memorial of Saint Norbert Today’s reading from Tobit highlights a wonderful exchange between Anna and Tobit. Tobit’s overwhelming pain from his blindness leads him to quarrel with his wife over charitable and generous acts. The scripture highlights that we pay taxes to build up our society and one another and render what is just and […]
June 5, 2023
Blessed the man who fears the Lord. Tobit exemplifies the blessed man described in the psalm we hear today. He “greatly delights in [God’s] commands,” and “he is gracious and merciful and just.” As Tobit reclines at table to enjoy a fine dinner, he asks his son, Tobiah, to first find and bring home a […]
June 4, 2023
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life (John 3:16). Do you really believe this? You should. “God is love,” John tells us explicitly (1 John 4:7). That is the good […]
June 3, 2023
If you asked me when I was seven what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have likely said Math teacher. Yet, when it was time to choose a college major, I made a different choice. My love for Math and teaching had become encumbered with other goals. I graduated with a […]
June 2, 2023
But of others, there is no memory, for when they ceased, they ceased. And they are as though they had not lived… Sirach will end his book singing the praises of the great ancestors of Israel. Later he will sing the praises, one by one, of some of the prominent personalities of the Hebrew Testament. […]
June 1, 2023
‘Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.” …Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”’ (Mark 10:46,48-49) How aware are we of our shortcomings and failings? How often […]
May 31, 2023
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary When the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary in Nazareth, she was told her elderly cousin, Elizabeth was already six months pregnant. Mary “traveled to the hill country in haste” to Ein Karem, near Jerusalem and approximately 90 miles from Mary’s hometown – not an easy journey […]