by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Mar 18, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Once upon a time, two families came to a rabbi wanting him to settle a dispute about the boundaries of their land. He listened as the first family recounted how they had received the land as their inheritance from their ancestors and how it had been in their family...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Mar 16, 2022 | Friar Reflection
James and John are discussing who will be on Jesus’ right and who will be on His left in the Kingdom. What they and their mother do not understand is that standing on either side of Jesus can be quite challenging. To stand on Jesus’ right or left to work in a soup...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Mar 10, 2022 | Friar Reflection
The Jews wanted Jesus to do something sensational to prove that He really was the anointed one of God. In the year 45 A.D. a man named Theudas arose claiming to be the Messiah. He persuaded people to follow him out to the Jordan with the promise that he would part...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Feb 16, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Some interesting aspects of the story of this healing. It shows how considerate Jesus was. He took the man aside from the crowd probably because He knew that He was going to give the man his sight and that the immediate recovery of his sight could be traumatizing...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Feb 9, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In a venerable synagogue in Prague, there is a display of paintings and drawings by children. It’s a lovely exhibit – until you realize that the children who created these pictures all perished in the Holocaust. There is one sketch in the exhibit that’s especially...
