Questions I Would Like To Ask Mary
DId mary know she was conceived free from sin? What was she praying for before the Annunciation? What did she expect when she was expecting? What were her questions as the mother of Jesus?
Did Pope Francis plagiarize a Brother Bishop?
Beatitudes for Bishops seems spot-on for leaders in the Vincentian Family and all who see themselves as servants of the poor after the model of St. Vincent following Christ the Evangelizer of the poor.
What Should We As Church Be Doing?
“What is the most important thing that the church needs to be doing in the world today?”
Some say it needs to comfort those who are uncomfortable.
Others would say it needs to challenge the comfortable.
Which would you say?
Looking At Luke’s Big Picture!
Of the fifty-two weeks in Cycle C more than forty Sunday Gospels are drawn from Luke. It is important to see the big picture painted by individual Sunday snippets.
Lord knows!
In his Gospel, Luke shifts the early Christian emphasis away from the expectation of an imminent second coming to the day-to-day concerns of the Christian community in their world.
Rom 16, 13 reads: "Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and greet his mother—a mother to me also." If this…
Have a blessed Holy Week!
I have never thought about the people that were named in the Gospels. I would agree that they may be…
Generally, I love the laconic nature of Mark's Gospel. The Passion narrative is very compelling in its starkness, with one…
Father John, Blessings to you as you step cautiously down that new path. Grace and Peace be with you!