Religious Education - Children
Catechist BlogForbidden Fruit
In today’s 1st reading we have the classic story of “forbidden fruit.” God has not put a heavy burden on Adam and Eve since He permits them to eat of all the fruit except one: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree...
Walking By Faith
My dear sisters and brothers, the emphasis in this great story is not on the healing but on the relationship of Jesus to Gentiles. Jesus came to break down the barriers that divide people. He came to save people, not to exclude them. The story of today’s Gospel...
…nor floods sweep it away
Today is the Feast Day of St. Scholastica, the foundress of the Benedictine Order of nuns and the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order of brothers. Together they are credited with establishing monasticism in the western world. It is...
Virtual Lenten Scripture Classes
Fr. Jim Scullion, O.F.M.'s Virtual Lenten Scripture Classes The Gospel of Mark - “Repent and believe in the Gospel” (Mark 1:15) is the traditional admonition on Ash Wednesday from the Gospel of Mark, the source of our gospel readings for the Sundays in this Liturgical...
Way back when
Between yesterday and today, our first reading covered the story of Creation from Genesis 1. It is a familiar story, a story told in children’s book, a story we have heard countless times over the years. It is a story that I think we are so familiar with that we no...
SFA Website work plan – week of Feb 8, 2021
Beginnings
“In the beginning…God saw that it was good…God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good.” (Genesis 1:1, 4, 31) It all begins with God and it all ends with God. It all begins with God’s creative love and it all ends with God’s loving embrace of all...
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Change
Any proposal that generates a critical conscience in the face of traditional systems is seen and understood as a threat to those who seek power in any time and geographical environment. The powerful, for fear of losing power, seek a way to eliminate, and sometimes...
Our Home
The Gospel today reflects several teachings of Jesus, It speaks of a wallet. The Greek word for wallet is pera which can mean collecting bag. Very often priests went out with these bags to collect contributions for their temple and their god. They have been described...