by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Jan 23, 2024 | Friar Reflection
One of the shocking novelties, the Good News, that Jesus brings to us is that Christians through our baptism live inside the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The communion of the Garden of Eden is reestablished in us through Christ and our baptism: a...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Jan 16, 2024 | Friar Reflection
The Word of God comes to us today to show us how easy it is for us to limit our conversion and judgments based on rigid interpretations of the law. We rigidly obey the rule of the law but not the heart of the law. We use the law as an instrument of war to judge, harm,...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Jan 12, 2024 | Friar Reflection
The principle sign of being a Christian person or a Christian community is living together in unity, serving and forgiving each other. That is why we have a family and a local Christian community. In the times after Jesus’ resurrection, people who did not know Jesus...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Jan 11, 2024 | Friar Reflection
In Israel during the New Testament times, leprosy was a disease that was fear. It was considered the result of punishment for sins, either of the leper or some ancestor. Being sick with leprosy was similar to a death sentence to a life of physical sickness, separation...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Jan 9, 2024 | Friar Reflection
After all the celebrations of the Advent and Christmas seasons, we begin again what the Church calls “Ordinary Time”, a time of no special feasts, no special season. The folks gathered in the synagogue on the sabbath at Capernaum were like us. They expected the...
