by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 25, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Today’s first reading is one of my favorite passages from St. Paul: “We hold this treasure in earthen vessels” (2 Cor 4:7). It points out one of the great paradoxes of this life of discipleship: it leads to glory, but entails suffering along the way. What is this...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 24, 2022 | Weekly-Email
It is the year 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town amid a depression. One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table to investigate trouble at the rail yards. He dies after being accidentally shot by a young black...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 20, 2022 | Friar Reflection
Before a baby is born, they are such a wonderful mystery. Though we can get a “peek” at them through ultrasound images, hear their heartbeat with a doppler, and speculate about what they might look like by forming a composite in our imaginations of their mom and dad’s...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 18, 2022 | Friar Reflection
This summer we have taken time to consider the first reading from daily Mass. The reading from the Prophet Micah is well matched to the Gospel in which the scribes and the Pharisees are asking for a sign so they will know that Jesus is who he says he is and as a...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Jul 15, 2022 | Weekly-Email
Recently I was given to a fit of “spring cleaning” in my office. As with most house cleanings, the day was marked by occasions of, “Oh my gosh, I wondered where that was,” “Where did I get that?”, “Why in the world did I keep that?” and a host of other ongoing...
