by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 20, 2023 | Friar Reflection
“I do believe, help my unbelief!” This is the cry of the father in today’s Gospel. He asks Jesus to cure his son who seems to have a form of epilepsy. The father asks Jesus to do something with these words: “But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 16, 2023 | Friar Reflection
In today’s Gospel Peter confesses that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ. Jesus begins questioning his disciples to see if they truly know who he is. At first the disciples give the answers of other people: “Some say John the Baptist, others, Elijah, others one of...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 15, 2023 | Friar Reflection
In today’s Gospel we hear the story of Jesus healing a blind man. While Jesus performed many miracles or healings there are a couple of elements that make this healing story stand out. First, instead of immediately healing by a simple command Jesus performs a ritual...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 6, 2023 | Friar Reflection
For the next two weeks our first reading will be taken from Genesis (Chapters 1-11), the first book of our Bible. The first book of the Bible begins, appropriately enough, with the “beginnings:” “In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Feb 2, 2023 | Friar Reflection
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. As we hear in today’s Gospel Mary and Joseph, as good and pious Jews, bring Jesus up to the Temple in Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. As they present Jesus to God, the prophets Simeon...
