Sunday Readings: Amos 8.4-7; 1 Timothy 2.1-8; Luke 16.1-13 A rich man summoned his manager and said, “What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager anymore.” Then the manager said to himself, “What will I do now that my master is takingContinue reading “Gospel Reflection for September 22, 2019, 25th Sunday Ordinary Time”
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Bible Study. Faith Sharing. Small Christian Communities.
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Gospel Reflection for August 4, 2019, 18th Sunday Ordinary Time
Sunday Readings: Ecclesiastes 1.2; 2.21-23; Colossians 3.1-5,9-11; Luke 12.13-21 “You fool! This night your life will be demanded of you. To whom will all this piled up wealth of yours go?” – Luke 12.20 In Jesus’ parable a man builds bigger granaries for an abundant harvest and keeps the surplus for himself. These blessings in reserveContinue reading “Gospel Reflection for August 4, 2019, 18th Sunday Ordinary Time”
Gospel Reflection for July 28, 2019, 17th Sunday Ordinary Time
Sunday Readings: Genesis 18.20-32; Colossians 2.12-14; Luke 11.1-13 “Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” – Luke 11.9 To pray that God’s name be hallowed and that God’s kingdom come is to acknowledge that all barriers to love must be dissolved.Continue reading “Gospel Reflection for July 28, 2019, 17th Sunday Ordinary Time”
Tiny Retreat #2: Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen: Patron saint of green and growing Hildegard was only five years old in 1098 when her parents brought her, their tenth child, to the monastery of St. Disibode. A holy woman named Jutta took the little girl in and taught her Latin and music so she could sing the psalms with the monksContinue reading “Tiny Retreat #2: Hildegard of Bingen”
Gospel Reflection for March 24, 2019, 3rd Sunday of Lent
Gospel Reflection for March 24, 2019, 3rd Sunday of Lent Sunday Readings: Exodus 3.1-8, 13-15; 1 Corinthians 10.1-6,10-12; Luke 13.1-9 Jesus spoke a parable. A man had a fig tree, came looking for figs, but found none. He said to the gardener, “For three years I have come looking for figs and found none. Cut itContinue reading “Gospel Reflection for March 24, 2019, 3rd Sunday of Lent”
Gospel Reflection for September 30, 2018, 26th Sunday Ordinary Time
Sunday Readings: Numbers 11.25-29; James 5.1-6; Mark 9.38-48 “Whoever is not against us is for us.” – Mark 9.40 Often in our disgustingly polarized times, activists, liberal and conservative, reverse Jesus’ saying and eliminate the middle ground. They insist whoever is not for us is against us. Middle ground is liminal space, valuable to preserve for exploring whatContinue reading “Gospel Reflection for September 30, 2018, 26th Sunday Ordinary Time”
Gospel Reflection for August 5, 2018, 18th Sunday Ordinary Time
Scripture Readings: Exodus 16.2-4, 12-15; Ephesians 4.17,20-24; John 6.24-35 “What must we do to perform the works of God?” – John 6.28 Jesus interests the crowd that he fed the day before in working for the food that endures for eternal life. Eternal life is the lure. That is why they ask, “What must weContinue reading “Gospel Reflection for August 5, 2018, 18th Sunday Ordinary Time”
Gospel Reflection for June 24, 2018, Birth of John the Baptist
Gospel Reflection for June 24, 2018, Birth of John the Baptist Sunday Readings: Isaiah 49.1-6; Acts 13.22-26; Luke 1.57-66, 80 On the eighth day Elizabeth and Zachariah came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after Zachariah after his father. But his mother said, “No; he is to be called John.”Continue reading “Gospel Reflection for June 24, 2018, Birth of John the Baptist”
Gospel Reflection for June 10, 2018, 10th Sunday Ordinary Time
Sunday Readings: Genesis 3.9-15; 2 Corinthians 4.13-5.1; Mark 3.20-35 “Whoever does the will of God is my brother, sister, and mother.” – Mark 3.35 Jesus is the talk of Galilee in the early chapters of Mark’s gospel. Only Mark tells this story in which enthusiastic crowds make neighbors his family question Jesus’ sanity. What makesContinue reading “Gospel Reflection for June 10, 2018, 10th Sunday Ordinary Time”
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