Church / Fr John Allen Green / Gospel / Mass / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 20, 2019 · Last modified September 18, 2019
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,...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 13, 2019 · Last modified September 12, 2019
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...
Bible / Church / Fr John Allen Green / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published September 6, 2019 · Last modified October 17, 2019
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...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published August 30, 2019 · Last modified September 1, 2019
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...
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...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Mass / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published August 16, 2019 · Last modified September 6, 2019
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,...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published August 11, 2019 · Last modified August 9, 2019
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...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published August 4, 2019 · Last modified August 15, 2019
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...
Church / Church History / Fr John Allen Green / Jesus / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published July 28, 2019 · Last modified July 25, 2019
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...
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by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published July 21, 2019 · Last modified July 18, 2019
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...
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...
Church / Fr John Allen Green / Scripture
by Fr John Allen Green OFM · Published July 7, 2019 · Last modified July 5, 2019
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....
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