by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Feb 1, 2022 | Friar Reflection
The Gospel passage tells us something about three people. It tells us about Jesus, the cost of healing. Each time that Jesus healed someone it took something out of Him. The point, we will never do something important in life, especially something that makes a...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Jan 27, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In Albert Camus’ iconic 1947 novel The Plague reads like a foreshadowing of our own tragic two years of the COVID pandemic. The physician at the center of the book, Bernard Rieux, battles the devastating epidemic day after day for almost a year. The escalating number...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Jan 18, 2022 | Parish Blog
In her book Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul, Rabbi Naomi Levy writes about Henry, a member of her congregation. Henry’s internet startup was booming – he was making more money than he’d ever dreamed of. He was thirty-six, happily married with an...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Dec 27, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Did you ever consider that as Christians we are called to write the Gospel of our lives? Gospel means “good news”. Our lives are or should be a Gospel, good news for others. The values we live, the moral lessons we teach our children, the ethical code by which we...
by Fr. John O'Connor OFM | Dec 22, 2021 | Friar Reflection
Today Mary prays, perhaps even sings that most beautiful prayer, the Magnificat. In the birth of her son Mary tells us that God is about to turn the world upside down. He scatters the proud in the plans of their hearts. A Moral revolution. Christianity is the death...
