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C.S. Lewis’ book, “The Four Loves,” gives us a good springboard for our reflections. Lewis discusses the four loves: storge, the love of affection and empathy; philia, the love between friends; eros, the love of a man for a woman; and agape, the unconditional love of God, benevolent love towards all.
Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10; Psalm 40, Response: Lord, come to my aid; Hebrews 12: 1-4; Gospel: Luke 12: 40-5 This...
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God our Lord, and this means to save his soul. And the other things on the face of the earth are created for man and that they may help him in pursuing the end for which he is created”—from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
What is it that makes your soul sing?” This question (borrowed from Elizabeth Braddon’s “Living the Life Within You”) never fails to stump participants in the formation seminars we run. This question for reflection leads to the revisiting of one’s mission.
In the Gospel narratives we read in the daily Masses, there are two emerging issues that set Christ on a...
22 September 2019 – 25th Sunday Readings: Amos 8: 4-7, Psalm 113, Response: Praise the Lord who lifts up the...
Recently, an advice of Pope Francis to priests to keep our homilies to 10 minutes made the rounds of the internet. (Fr. Joe Galdon, SJ, used to tell us in the seminary, “There are no souls saved after seven minutes,” while Fr. Jim Donelan, SJ, trained us, or at least tried to, on the one-point homily.)
Sept. 1—22nd Sunday Readings: Sirach 3: 17-18, 20, 28-29; Psalm 68, Response: God, in your goodness, you have made a...
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do will it. Be made clean.’” This image of Christ and the leper, one of the most poignant scenes in the Gospels, completes our three Sunday profiles of Christ and his mission.
This Sunday’s readings remind us of the graces of detachment and indifference. As the Gospel counsels, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”
