by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Feb 23, 2024 | Friar Reflection
As human beings, we tend to choose division, to choose our own personal needs over the needs of others and to impose our will on everyone else. This is called the way of sin. We Catholics called that original sin. The devil produces division and separation – division...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Feb 22, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Today’s feast refers to Peter’s chair as the teaching chair of a professor or the presiding chair of a bishop. It is the chair of authority regarding teaching and doctrine. The importance of Peter’s teaching of faith comes from today’s Gospel. He is the first to fully...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 21, 2024 | Friar Reflection
What is the sign of Jonah that Jesus mentions in today’s Gospel? He tells the crowd: “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Feb 20, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Today’s first reading is one of my favorite chapters of the Old Testament: Isaiah 55. It always reminds me of the parable of the Sower and the Seed from the gospels with the Word of God being sent into the world on good and poor soil alike. Starting in Isaiah 40, the...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 19, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Today’s readings teach us God’s will and the criterion on which we will be judged at the end of time. In the first reading from Leviticus God calls us to be his holy people: “Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.” The reading then goes on to detail what it...
