In today’s Gospel Jesus instructs us to look at our own faults instead of focusing on the faults of another: “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden...
Stop Judging
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Friar Reflection
Living As God Lives – Living In Heaven
This week’s Gospel readings are taken from Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, a sort of mirror memory of Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount which is more extensive and complete. The Sermon on the Mount or the...
Lightly Held
The first reading today is from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. This is one of those Pauline passages that can sound rather alarming: “Let those having wives act as not having them,...
Quiet is the Work of God
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the Church's ancient Marian celebrations. Its history is especially interesting because it begins in the Christian East, is connected with...
Is It Lawful to Do Good?
In today’s Gospel Jesus is confronted by some Jewish Scribes and Pharisees. The Pharisees are a lay reform movement within Judaism who are zealous for the things of God and seek to discern and to...
Jesus Blesses the Children
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....
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...