by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Feb 22, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Today’s feast refers to Peter’s chair as the teaching chair of a professor or the presiding chair of a bishop. It is the chair of authority regarding teaching and doctrine. The importance of Peter’s teaching of faith comes from today’s Gospel. He is the first to fully...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Feb 15, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Here we are in the first days of Lent, the beginning of our road to Jerusalem. Today Moises appears in our Lenten way. Moses is very clear when proclaiming God’s Word to the Israelites and to us. There are only two options in life, two ways. One is united with God’s...
by Fr. Chris Dunn OFM | Jan 25, 2024 | Friar Reflection
A deeply devout and highly educated in the Word of God and the religious traditions of Israel, Pablo dedicated his life to eliminating the Christian Way because it was initially seen as a heretical sect within the Jewish faith. Pablo underwent a profound...
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,...
