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A challenge is given us in our second reading this weekend: “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence…” (1 Peter 3:15). Our society has become less explicitly religious in recent decades. Depending…
This Mother’s Day falls on my great-aunt’s birthday. Ella Dolan was “Auntie” to my mother’s generation and later to mine. Never married, she nursed my sickly grandmother and kept house for the family. She was the one who cooked Sunday dinner for the whole clan; made sure that, on someone’s…
Today our second reading is a wonderful Scripture for Mother’s Day! In it we are invited to come to the Lord, a living stone, and to let ourselves “like living stones … be built into a spiritual house” (1 Pet 2:4-9). Both Hebrew Scripture and our Christian Scripture use rocks,…
Notice three intertwined images in Sunday’s Gospel about the Good Shepherd. There is the image of the sheep, who have such an intimate relationship with the shepherd that they can pick out his voice from among others and follow only him to safe pasture. There is the image of the…
I noticed one afternoon a rustling in my pansy flower planter on my balcony porch. Out flies a wren. As I watched another wren appeared with a decomposing leaf. They are building a nest for their new family. So, what about my pansies? Do I try watering them carefully not…
And he said to them … was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? The disciples who met Jesus on the road did not expect the messiah to die. Indeed, why Jesus had to die is a question that has puzzled people…
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, as spring seriously settles in, we are given a balm to soothe our weary, stressed and anxious souls. The COVID-19 pandemic can turn our days to a monochromatic drama of fear, uselessness and cabin fever. Our personal identity is often bound up with how many…
Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy… (1 Peter 1:8, 2nd reading for this Sunday). Faith is our puzzle for today. Our Gospel is about the apostle Thomas,…
be still and know that I am GOD in noise in hope in grief in family in faith in wisdom in who to trust in social distancing in financial worries in wellness in privilege in blessing of time in silence in betrayal in solitude in sickness in hope in…
Earthquakes, fortunately mostly just small ones, were regular occurrences in California where I lived for 15 years. Matthew’s Gospel uses earthquakes like exclamation points! When Jesus dies, the earth quaked, rocks were split… (27:51). In our Easter Gospel, when the women approach the tomb to look for Jesus’ body, there…