Posts from 2025 (Page 2)
Being A Neighbor is an action
In what may be his most famous story, Jesus talks about the Good Samaritan as the teacher for us on re-establishing kinship.
Entertaining Angels
In our scriptural tradition, angels play a sigificant role in the faith life and can provide us with encouragement in hard times.
Lighting Our Lamps and Letting Them Shine
The biblical tradition reminds us that shining our light is meant to both give hope and reveal what is going on around us.
Listening To Our Lady Of Sorrows
Today's feast of Our Lady of Sorrows invites us to lean in to the pain in our lives and of this world and to let it transform us.
Everything And Everyone Belongs
Our scriptures today invite us to appreciate the significance of the ordinary and remind us that God can use our whole lives - not just the good parts - for a higher purpose.
Your Wild And Precious Life
Today's readings offer us reflective space to think about what happens after death as well as how we want to live.
The War That Matters
Jesus challenged the religious authorities because he wanted to show the people that another way was possible and desired by God.
Seeking Heavenly Treasure
These passages describe a people who have lost their way and a man who cannot relinquish his lifestyle. Both speak to us in this moment.
Taking Sides And Non-Cooperation
Our readings today offer us a vision of biblical care for the stranger as well as a crituque of our modern economic structures.
What Do You Already Have?
In the face of something overwhelming, we might tend to constrict. But Jesus invites us to open up and offer what we can.
What Do We Build Our Lives Around?
Just like the Israelites creaed false gods, we, too, lose our way and orient our lives around that which cannot satisfy. But return is always possible.
Tell Them To Go Forward
There are many times in the spiritual life when we are invited to trust in God - even if there is no immediate result or resolution.