Many times, our modern culture and mentality do not let us to understand what is happening in the Gospel events. We end up interpreting them with our modern eyes and we lose the true meaning....
Jesus Blesses the Children
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Friar Reflection
Our Pride and Jesus’ Word
One day some fishermen are cleaning and mending their nets after a long night working without any success. As professional fishermen, they were experts in fishing and everything about their lake....
Contagious Holiness
We all know what it means for something to be contagious. Someone in the family catches a cold, and pretty soon everybody is trying not to catch it. We keep our distance. We wash our hands. We don't...
Authority and Jesus’ Word
The religious leaders of Jesus’ time had become guardians of tradition and rules. Those traditions and their own lifestyles had degenerated into a repetition of a boring life, boring preaching, and...
When the Word Disagrees with Me
Today’s gospel is the familiar story of Jesus in his home town synagogue in Nazareth. He proclaims, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the...
Become Wise
Today’s reflection is based on Matthew 25:1-13, the Parable of the Ten Virgins, and is part of our parish elementary school Friday Mass celebration. I grew up in Florida, where hurricanes were...
Vigilance
The attitude of constant vigilance is basic for a truly Christian life. Jesus uses two parables today to call us to a life of vigilance: the vigilant master of the house guarding against thieves and...
Hypocrisy
Jesus calls us as disciples to draw people to God. Our good deeds can draw people to God, but bad deeds or hypocrisy can drive people away from the church and even from God. In the Sermon on the...
The Weightier Things
In this section of Matthew’s Gospel Jesus is in constant debate and conflict with the scribes and pharisees. As the religious leaders of Israel, they should have been calling the people to holiness...
Come and See
In today’s Gospel Jesus invites his first disciples and invites all of us to “Come and See.” Philip finds Nathanael and tells him we found the one foretold in the Scripture (“the Law, and also the...