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by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Holy Week, Jesus, Judas Iscariot, Living with Christ, Matthew 26:14-25, Melanie Rigney, News, Preparations for the Passover, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Betrayal by Judas, The Betrayer | 0 |
‘Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.’ Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply, ‘Surely it is not I, Rabbi?’ (Matthew 26:24-25). Two awed apostles, two different endings. …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2020 | Announcement of Judas’s Betrayal, Daily Gospel reflections, Holy Week, Jesus, John 13:21-33 and 36-38, Judas Iscariot, Living with Christ, News, Peter’s Denial Predicted, Sr. Kathryn James Hermes FSP, St. Peter, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
‘What you are going to do, do quickly.’ (John 13:27) Humans instinctively seek to preserve their lives. We marvel and give honors to persons who put their life in jeopardy to save another. Jesus steps out of the very human pattern of self-preservation,…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Holy Week, Jesus, John 12:1-11, Living with Christ, Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Anointing at Bethany | 0 |
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair. (John 12:3) Many years ago, I remember passing a florist shop and thinking, “Wouldn’t it be great to give some flowers…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Ezekiel, Jesus, John 11:45-56, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Session of the Sanhedrin, Sr. Chris Koellhoffer IHM, ST. ÓSCAR ROMERO, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. I will multiply them and put my sanctuary among them forever. (Ezekiel 37:26) On the floor at the rear of a church in San Salvador is a plaque memorializing an ev…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Feast of the Dedication, Jesus, John 10:31-42, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Sr. Bridget Haase OSU, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. (Psalm 18:3) Spiritual combats are a certainty of life. We skirmish with disenchantment, discouragement, and darkness; battle with our desires for prestige, popularity, and power; and may even wage war against …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, John 8:21-30, Living with Christ, Moses, News, Numbers 21:4-9, Sr. Bridget Haase OSU, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Bronze Serpent, The Father’s Ambassador | 0 |
‘Pray to the Lord to take the serpents from us.’ (Numbers 21:7) “Sister,” blurted frustrated 10-year-old Marion during language arts, “sometimes I get so mad life kinda chokes me.” Like young Marion and the Israelites, we all have personal …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | A Woman Caught in Adultery, Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, John 8:1–11, Lent, News, Paul McKibben, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff comfort me. (Psalm 23:4) In 2004, a controversy arose in the Indiana community I covered as a newspaper reporter when its fi…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 28, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Discussion about the Origins of the Messiah, Jesus, John 7:40-53, Living with Christ, News, Paul Pennick, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
Like a trusting lamb led to slaughter. (Jeremiah 11:19) Unfortunately, I have known some people who have had their trust in others shaken to its core: a married woman with an infant is left by her spouse and left with no income; a child is physically a…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections, Terri Mifek | 0 |
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. (Psalm 34:19) I was feeling discouraged after a speaker I know told a story that put women in a very negative light. Even though he later apologized, I wondered if he really understood the effect his words had or…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, John 5:31-47, Lent, Living with Christ, Love, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt. (Psalm 106:21) In an interview with a father whose only son had been convicted of mass murder and sentenced to death, the father told of the deep love he had for his son. Nothi…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, John 4:43-54, Karla Manternach, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Second Sign at Cana, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
See, I am creating new heavens and a new earth. (Isaiah 65:17) It would be nice if the most important questions in life had clearer answers than they do. Why are we here? Why do we suffer? What has God to do with it all? Why doesn’t Christ heal all tho…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 21, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, Lent, Living with Christ, Luke 18:9-14, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector | 0 |
Have mercy on me, God, in accord with your merciful love; in your abundant compassion blot out my transgressions. Thoroughly wash away my guilt; and from my sin cleanse me. (Pslam 51:3-4) A few years ago during Lent, I began praying the Liturgy of the …
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