Spiritual Reflection

• 

  Penitence; Do it now!

  Dec 06, 2024

  Stay Awake! “Watch and pray constantly; Make ready the way of the Lord; Blameless when Jesus comes; Arise Jerusalem these are some of the words that we hear during the season of Advent.

  
• 

  Heaven isn’t the same for everyone

  Dec 06, 2024

  Daniel Berrigan once said: Before you get serious about Jesus, think carefully about how good you are going to look on wood!

  
• 

  The Tower of Babel

  Dec 01, 2024

  The opening pages of the Bible offer us a series of stories set at the beginning of history which are meant to explain why the world today is as it is.

  
• 

  Lighter thoughts on a heavy subject

  Nov 22, 2024

  Our faith tells us that, given the love and benevolence of the God we believe in, only the second option, happiness, awaits us.

  
• 

  Bread and wine

  Nov 15, 2024

  At the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Eucharist he chose to use two elements, bread and wine.

  
• 

  Mature love or just going through the motions?

  Oct 26, 2024

  We know the inconsistency of our emotions. One day we feel affectionate toward someone and the next day we feel irritated. The same is true for prayer. One day we feel warm and focused and the next day we feel bored and distracted.

  
• 

  Refugees, Immigrants, and Jesus

  Oct 18, 2024

  First, God made the world for everybody. We are stewards of a property not our own. We don’t own anything, God does, and God made the world for everybody. That’s a principle we too easily ignore when we speak of barring others from entering “our” country. We happen to be stewards here, in a country that belongs to the whole world.

  
• 

  When is fear healthy?

  Oct 04, 2024

  A healthy theology of God demands that we stop teaching that hell can be a nasty surprise waiting for an essentially good person.

  
• 

  Our real legacy —the energy we leave behind

  Sep 20, 2024

  Our real legacy —the energy we leave behind

  
• 

  Dark memory

  Sep 06, 2024

  Inside each of us, beyond what we can express in words, picture clearly, or even feel distinctly, we have a dark memory of having once been touched and caressed by hands far gentler than our own.