Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restAmen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When
… Read the restSome people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?
… Read the restWhen Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
… Read the restNow I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church, of which I am a minister in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God, the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past.
Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent
Luke 7:18b-23 (Matthew 11:2-6)
… Read the restAt that time, John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” When
26th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday (Year II)
Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5
WHY?
This infuriating question had Job and his friends entangled like a Gordian knot. Word after word and argument after argument submerged them deeper and deeper into the quicksand of “Why?”… 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
26th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday (Year II)
Job 9:1-12, 14-16; Psalm 88; Luke 9:57-62
Daily I call upon you, O LORD;
to you I stretch out my hands…
Why, O LORD, do you reject me;
why hide from me your face?… Read the rest