by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 31, 2022 | Weekly-Email
Sarah Garone, November 2018, originally appearing on the Busted Halo website A few weeks ago, I showed up to Mass with a heavy heart. Though I try not to follow the news too closely (for the sake of my mental health), I couldn’t help but notice the acrimonious...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Jul 28, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Jesus asks us in today’s Gospel if we “understand all these things.” Do we understand Jesus’ interpretation of the Parable of the Weeds growing among Wheat and the Parable of the Net that collects fish of every kind? Jesus teaches us that there will be a judgement...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 27, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s first reading, Jeremiah is having a bad day – maybe a bad year. He is at the end of his rope in dealing with the people of Judah and Jerusalem in his role of prophet. Jeremiah was not a flash-in-the-pan prophet who showed up like Jonah in Nineveh and...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Jul 26, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s Gospel Jesus explains the Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat. In this parable Jesus gives us his vision of what the church is or what it should be. While eventually the weeds are separated from the wheat that does not happen until the “end of the age.” ...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 25, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Today’s first reading is one of my favorite passages from St. Paul: “We hold this treasure in earthen vessels” (2 Cor 4:7). It points out one of the great paradoxes of this life of discipleship: it leads to glory, but entails suffering along the way. What is this...
