30th Sunday Reflection: Compassion as the Way of Vision
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mark 10:46-52 – Traditional wisdom requires that we have vision, to observe and to make deductions about origins and how-to live-in...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
29th Sunday Reflection: The Outcast that Redeems
The Outcast Who Redeems – (Mark 10:35-45) We live in a culture in which we are repeatedly coaxed into believing that all of life is a race...
28th Sunday Reflection: The Way Out of Discontent and Loneliness
The Way Out of Discontent and Loneliness – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – (Mark 10:17-27) Getting a rope through the eye of a needle, nope,...
27th Sunday Reflection: Compassion and Mercy as the Act of Love
Compassion and Mercy as the Act of Love – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2021 – (Mark 10:2-12) Our journey as the human species shows...
26th Sunday Reflection: Inclusivity of the Beloved Community
Inclusivity of the Beloved Community – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B 2021 – (Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48) To live is to choose: where do I extend my energy?;...
25th Sunday Reflection: The Wisdom of Compassion
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B – (Mark 9:30–37) – There is a sickness within the human condition, selfishness that leads to death. Jesus points us...
24th Sunday Reflection: New Penitents of Repentance
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B 2021 – (Mark 8:27-35) – Sometimes we need a high impact, multi-car pileup before we are ready to slow down,...
23rd Sunday Reflection: Isolation and Forgetfulness
ISOLATION AND FORGETFULNESS – 23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B 2021 – (Mark 7:31-37) Familiarity too easily makes us forgetful. The loss of grace, the loss...
22nd Sunday Reflection: Banality of Evil
Banality of Evil – Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 To witness, to see, to stand in the presence of unthinking, unreasoning and unholy actions, leaves us stunned, stammering for motives...
21st Sunday Reflection: Taking A Chance On Love
Taking A Chance On Love – John 6:60-69 – First comes love. But how can I love without knowing… the person… the truth of who they...
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Reflection
SEEING THROUGH THE MOTHERS’ EYES – The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Luke 1:39-56 As we gaze on Mary’s son, Jesus, through the eyes of...
19th Sunday Reflection: The Victim – Discontent And Bitterness
THE VICTIM – DISCONTENT AND BITTERNESS – (John 6:41-51) Discontent and bitterness; Job is our model here… Job was still grieving the loss of his children...
