July 21, 2025
Give us a sign. Our lives are surrounded by them – signs. Traffic signs, billboards, political ads; the possibilities are endless. Each communicates a message about something that might influence our lives. Every sign, either audio, visual, or even a gesture, is a missive, and it’s up to us to choose. The Pharisees requested that […]
July 20, 2025
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time The first reading takes place at the home of Abraham and Sarah. The Lord appears to Abraham at the entrance of his tent. Looking up, Abraham sees three men, recognizes them as sent by God, and he offers hospitality. Greeting them with humility, he washes their feet and, with the […]
July 19, 2025
Where did he go? Why did he leave? Who wanted to kill him? The Pharisees? But… they are supposed to be men of God. I don’t understand…Jesus… wait for me! I want to come with you!! The ugliness of humans can be found even in those who claim to be men and women of God. […]
July 18, 2025
Memorial of Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest “I desire mercy.” One aspect of Jesus’ ministry that certainly drew people to him was the fact that he healed so many people. The blind, the lame, the deaf, lepers, and those possessed by demons came to him and found in him a relief of their infirmities. This […]
July 17, 2025
Jesus extends to all an invitation: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” What comforting words. What a loving offer. But, if we are not yet ready to respond to such an invitation, the good Master continues: “For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” […]
July 16, 2025
God said, “Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. God said this to Moses as he approached the burning bush, which he saw at the foot of Mount Sinai. In her poem “Aurora Leigh,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning has an interesting thought for us: “Earth’s […]
July 15, 2025
Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Today we celebrate a Franciscan friar, Saint Bonaventure, who was a senior faculty member at the University of Paris and later served as General Minister for their Order for 17 years. A year before he died in 1274, Pope Gregory created him a Cardinal and […]
July 14, 2025
“And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” My husband was diagnosed with lymphoma, and my brother came to visit him in the hospital. He gave him a crucifix, […]
July 13, 2025
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time To test Jesus, a “scholar of the law” asked him what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus threw the question back to him by asking him, “What is written in the law?” The scholar answered. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with […]
July 12, 2025
Commemoration of the Beatification of Peter Julian Eymard (1925) Today, let us ponder the Gospel’s words: “What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light.” When does God speak to us in the darkness? Perhaps it is when we end our day in prayer. However, often we are the ones speaking, but […]