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...
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...
