Journey to Wholeness
Monday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:22-29
… Read the restThe next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.
Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Luke 9:22-25
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
Genesis 2:15 (RSV)
Adam, priest and king of the Lord’s garden sanctuary, had the duty “to till it and keep it.” … Read the rest
4th Week in Ordinary Time, Monday (Year I)
Hebrews 11:32-40; Mark 5:1-20
… Read the restWhat more shall I say? I have not time to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, did what was righteous, obtained the promises; they closed the mouths of lions, put out raging fires, escaped the devouring sword; out of weakness they were made powerful, became strong in battle, and turned back foreign invaders.
29th Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
Luke 12:51
Strange words from the Son of God. Jesus was accused of many things, but utopianism was not one of them. … Read the rest
26th Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)
Job 19:21-27; Psalm 27
Are suffering and misfortune a sign of God’s wrath upon a sinner? Such a belief plagued the ancient world and hurled Job into a pit of scorn and derision from his neighbors (Job 12:4-5).… Read the rest
25th Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday (Year II)
Ecclesiastes 11:9—12:8, Psalm 90, Luke 9:43b-45
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young
and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.… Read the rest
The hearts (kardia) of Jesus and Mary were so closely knit that they beat together as one.… Read the rest
13th Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)
Amos 7:10-17; Matthew 9:1-8
The paralytic and his friends in the Gospels show us that we are never alone in our journey of faith.… Read the rest
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Matthew 10:37-42
Jesus said to his apostles: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.… Read the rest
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Jeremiah 20:10-13, Romans 5:12-15, Matthew 10:26-33
“Fear no one.”
Jeremiah stood alone in his views and was hated. The truth is unpopular but necessary like oxygen.
On the Cross, Jesus was deprived of earthly oxygen by asphyxiation, but when his mission was completed, he filled our humanity with the eternal oxygen of the Spirit of truth.… Read the rest