by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | May 10, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Today’s Gospel is a longer version of this past Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus the Good Shepherd. As today’s Gospel begins Jesus is walking in the Temple in Jerusalem during the feast of Dedication, Hanukkah. Hanukkah was an eight-day festival of lights. Jesus has already...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | May 9, 2022 | Friar Reflection
The people heard that parishioners from St. Francis in Triangle had gone to St. Fulani to celebrate a Tridentine Rite Mass. And so when they returned they were confronted and asked, “You went to a Tridentine Mass and worshiped with them. How could you be associated...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | May 8, 2022 | Weekly-Email
If you knew this was your last week, your last day on earth, what would you tell the people you love? Would it be advice? Your hopes for them? Would it be the dreams you have? Perhaps, the gratitude and love in your heart? What would be your last words to the ones...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | May 6, 2022 | Friar Reflection
The first reading today is from the Acts of the Apostles. It is usually called the conversion of St. Paul. Paul himself, however, describes his Damascus’ experience not as a conversion but as a call, a call to evangelize: “But when God, who from my mother’s womb had...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | May 5, 2022 | Friar Reflection
During this Easter season we have been listening to the first experiences of the disciples with the risen Christ. The Easter season is a time of renewal of our own personal connection to the risen Christ in own lives – day after day. Lives transformed by the presence...
