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...
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...
