by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Nov 11, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In our first reading today, the Presbyter warns again the “antichrist.” The antichrist or “deceiver” is one or more who have left the community and gone out into the world. They deny “Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh.” They do not deny Christ but they seem to...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Nov 7, 2022 | Friar Reflection
This week we ask to reflect on our call to ministry and our vocations. Each of us through our baptism have become members of the Body of Christ and are called to be ministers of reconciliation and instruments of God’s peace. In today’s frist reading Paul reflects on...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Nov 3, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s first reading Paul talks about his life, his gains and his losses. He tells us he has been forced to reevaluate everything in the light of knowing Jesus: “But whatever gains I had, these I have come to consider a loss because of Christ. More than that, I...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Oct 27, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s first reading Paul calls upon us to prepare for “spiritual warfare.” “Brothers and sisters: Draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power…For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Oct 21, 2022 | Friar Reflection
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.” I remember hearing this saying many times growing up from my father. Although my father had been in the Navy, he was not really a sailor but just like this proverb or common saying. Jesus...
