by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 27, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Holy Week is a story told in three acts. Act 1: Love Portrayed. All Lent we have seen Love Portrayed: Jesus transfigured on the mountain top. The glory of God revealed and yet what would seem to be the final scene of the play is but the beginning. We’ve more to...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 26, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Your average Catholic only needs to stand next to a born-again, evangelical Christian to understand how private we are about our life in faith. Of course, you’re thinking, “All that public praying and witnessing, that’s their thing. Our faith was more discrete, more...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 23, 2024 | Friar Reflection
This is Holy Week during which the Church invites us to enter more intentionally into the mystery of our salvation through the celebration of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday and the Vigil, and the grand celebration of Easter Sunday. This is Holy Week. But...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 18, 2024 | Friar Reflection
The scene in today’ gospel (a woman caught in adultery) is a mixture of zealous righteousness that seeks to enact the law without pardon or quarter, the leadership who want to trap Jesus between mercy and the Law, and a woman caught in sin, fearing for her life. True...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Mar 12, 2024 | Friar Reflection
Part of the baptismal ceremony for infants is the blessing of the waters of the sacrament. It is a wonderful blessing that tells the history of salvation through the story of the living waters. It is a panorama of events from Sacred Scripture: At the very dawn of...
