by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | May 26, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s first reading we meet the Jewish Christian missionary couple Aquila and Priscilla. The Emperor Claudius had expelled them and other Jews and Jewish Christians out of Rome. Paul now works with them in Corinth because they all are tentmakers. This couple,...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | May 12, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s Gospel Jesus tells us that he is a servant and an apostle: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no servant (doulos) is greater than his master nor any messenger (apostolos) greater than the one who sent him.” What does it mean to be a servant? Jesus gave a concrete...
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. 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. Jim Scullion OFM | May 2, 2022 | Friar Reflection
What does God ask of us? The first and most important answer to this question is that God wants us to put our faith and trust in Jesus the one sent to us by the Father. This is what we hear in today’s Gospel: “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he...
