Reflections (Page 3)

In our scriptural tradition, angels play a sigificant role in the faith life and can provide us with encouragement in hard times.

The biblical tradition reminds us that shining our light is meant to both give hope and reveal what is going on around us.

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.

Today's readings offer us reflective space to think about what happens after death as well as how we want to live.

Jesus challenged the religious authorities because he wanted to show the people that another way was possible and desired by God.

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.

Our readings today offer us a vision of biblical care for the stranger as well as a crituque of our modern economic structures.

In the face of something overwhelming, we might tend to constrict. But Jesus invites us to open up and offer what we can.

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.

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.

The scriptures for today remind us that no matter where we go, we are in the house of God and must work to protect this house from the forces of death.

Beauty and joy are essential to the spiritual life. And we are invited to not put anything else above our response to God's kin-dom.