by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Oct 10, 2023 | Friar Reflection
Jesus’ visit to Martha and Mary’s home is a well know story. But we tend to oversimplify the encounter and lose the importance of what really happened that day. This is not a story about choosing an active life or ministry or a life of contemplation and prayer. Those...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Oct 5, 2023 | Friar Reflection
Jesus sends out teams of two who have the mission to prepare the towns for his visit – 36 teams. This is also our mission in life: to prepare those around us for an encounter with Jesus. The mission is very specific and well defined. When I went to Peru on...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Oct 4, 2023 | Friar Reflection
Francis had what today we would call a primary school education. He had studied enough at the local parish school to know how to read, write, add, and subtract to be able to work in his family’s cloth business. He embraced all the cultural norms and practices of his...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Sep 19, 2023 | Friar Reflection
Over and over again we see Jesus breaking into a someone’s life shockingly, gratuitously, unexpectedly, and uninvited. In the time of Jesus, women lived dependent on their husbands or in the case of widows, their eldest son. Today’s Gospel is about the burial...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Sep 15, 2023 | Friar Reflection
Sequence — Stabat Mater At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Now at length the sword had passed. Oh, how sad and sore distressed Was that...
