29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
What a spine chilling question, “when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Add this question to Jesus astonishment and sorrow when the people from his home town lacked faith...
Author: Fr John Allen Green OFM
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
We hear the groaning! With creation, we share a collective wound. All joy is gone and we feel that something important has gone, something has been lost. We still live the same life, perhaps...
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
The true nemesis of faith is not doubt, but pride. In the novel by John Updike, reworking the themes of “The Scarlet Letter”, we encounter Roger Lambert, a jaded, and debauched theology professor who...
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees; an opportunity and an invitation. But Jesus also predicts that they do not have the capacity to hear, to see, or to understand. They have been given everything,...
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
A wine merchant lies on his deathbed; surrounded in hushed silence by his sons and daughters, the grandchildren; all gathered around at this sacred moment. With his last breaths, he whispered urgently to them,...
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Jerusalem, the holy city of the prophets. I have visited many places around the world, but of all the cities in the world, Jerusalem has a unique smell; it is the smell of the...
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
Who am I; what does it mean for me to be a person, to be a human being? Many people answer this question in the same way as Scripture, “I am John, a member...
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
How do we judge? How do we choose? How do we respond? White supremacy, False pride, Black pride, Gay pride; the noblest of virtues or deadly sin; pride has a social history! Pride is...
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...
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...
