by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Jun 8, 2021 | Friar Reflection
“Give Glory to God” In today’s Gospel Jesus continues his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-7:28). This Sermon begins with the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) whereby Jesus teaches us what it means to be his disciple: it means to be “poor in spirit”, that is, to be...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jun 7, 2021 | Parish Blog
This week, we celebrate The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotional with long and historic provenance within Christianity, and in modern times has been established as a Solemnity for the universal Church. The Solemnity was first celebrated in France. The...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Jun 7, 2021 | Friar Reflection
A Buddhist monk was asked to teach meditation at a prison near the monastery. Many of the inmates had never met a monk. After the first session, they began to ask him about his life in the monastery. “We get up at four o’clock every morning,” the monk explained. ...
by Fr. Lalo Jara OFM | Jun 4, 2021 | Friar Reflection
In many parts of the Gospel the most significant groups of Judaism from the time of Jesus (Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees) ask and Jesus answers. Yesterday’s Gospel was one of them. Today we hear that it is Jesus’ turn to ask. While Jesus was in the temple, He...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Jun 3, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Sometimes the Internet can overwhelm us with too much information and with dubious facts and conspiracies. We can truly lose the forest for the trees and lose sight of what is important and true! The Jewish scribe in today’s Gospel also had this feeling of being...
