by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 6, 2022 | Weekly-Email
…that are easy to miss, to tune out, or just not realize how important they are. Like the Readings, these three prayers are different for each Mass. The three prayers are the Collect, the Prayer over the Offerings, and the Prayer after Communion. They’re short prayers...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 3, 2022 | Friar Reflection
The daily readings are never meant to be a Bible Study per se, but unless one has a sense of the book or scroll from which it is taken, I think people unfamiliar with, e.g., the prophet Jeremiah, easily are lost as the reading is proclaimed. It just becomes words,...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Aug 1, 2022 | Friar Reflection
St. Alphonsus is the patron saint of moral theologians. In his day, Alphonsus strove to free the Church from a moral theology that was ever more influenced by something called Jansenism. What is Jansenism? You could spend a whole day tracking its roots from Tertullian...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 31, 2022 | Weekly-Email
Sarah Garone, November 2018, originally appearing on the Busted Halo website A few weeks ago, I showed up to Mass with a heavy heart. Though I try not to follow the news too closely (for the sake of my mental health), I couldn’t help but notice the acrimonious...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 27, 2022 | Friar Reflection
In today’s first reading, Jeremiah is having a bad day – maybe a bad year. He is at the end of his rope in dealing with the people of Judah and Jerusalem in his role of prophet. Jeremiah was not a flash-in-the-pan prophet who showed up like Jonah in Nineveh and...
