21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Is my life headed in the right direction? Have I chosen the right path? A Jew comes up to the Jewish teacher we call Jesus and asks him a loaded question, “Lord, is it...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Reflection
God makes a promise, God proclaims it, and Holy Scripture, God’s Word affirms it: it is the woman who will crush the head of evil and deceit that brings disintegration and death.1 Today Mary,...
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Every true encounter with an-other changes and in some way expands us. Any mystical experience of God, is an experience of the transcendent, something that is eternal and beyond any limitations. Such an encounter...
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
All of us seek to be known, to be loved and to love. Yet far too often our journey takes us far from this core of who we are. We are brought face-to-face with...
17th Sunday of the Year Reflection
The “Our Father”, is the prayer of 1,2 billion Catholics and a further 1 billion of other Christian denominations around the world, in every place, in every occasion; in times of celebration, in times...
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
There is another way, a better way, a good way… Martha is distracted in her work of serving the food. She is anxious about getting everything right and she is disturbed that Jesus does...
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
This is my body, broken for you… The abused becomes the abuser in a spiral of retaliation and anger that continues as we are beset on our journey, robbed, beaten and left naked and...
14 Sunday Reflection
Sin is really big business, and no, I don’t mean just for pimps and politicians. When we link sin to the Babylon effect of transactions and repayments, we have a ready and marketable commodity....
13th Sunday of the Year Reflection
We cling to the good old days; our yesterday’s when we were young and strong, and all our troubles seem so far away. We experience that warm glow of security as we recall and...
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Reflection
For God so loved the world … Time is like a single droplet of water within the vast ocean; time with a beginning and an end, time that is already accomplished and completed in...
Trinity Sunday Reflection
All of us face the same difficulty in life; we face the reality that changes and values that appear to contradict each other. We change and reality also changes; yesterday I was but a...
Pentecost Sunday Reflection
There are three great epochs marked in Sacred Scripture that are heralded by God’s Holy Spirit at work within creation. At the genesis of the history of creation, God breaths the Word that becomes...
