Blog Post 04-14-2025 - Holy Week - Why are you here?

 

 

During this Holy Week reflect on Why you are here? Lent reminds us to look deeply into our lives & reflect on why we do what we do!

 

May God Be Praised.

Blog Post Palm Sunday 04-13-2025 Homily Cycle C – Offered at OLPH

 

Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041325.cfm

 

“Our Cloak & Suffering”

In Jesus’ time, your cloak was the most expensive article of clothing you possessed. Most people only owned one that was constantly mended and never discarded. For the poorest of the poor, their cloak was more than an article of clothing — it was their shelter and home.

Were Christ to come, would you lay your cloak on the road before Him?

About 200 years before Christ lived, a rabbi was teaching a group of his students on a little hill outside of their village. As he was teaching, their village was invaded by foreign troops.  There was screaming, yelling, mayhem, and fire. 

Finally, the rabbi looked up to heaven and screamed: “If only I were God!” One of his students asked him, “Rabbi, what would you do differently if you were God?” 

The rabbi answered, “I would do nothing differently, but I would understand.”

We do not understand why suffering enters our life. We can either offer it up to God and ask Him to make good come from it or allow it to weigh us down or make us bitter.  As we reflect on this Palm Sunday let’s take some time to think about what “cloak” we would lay on the road for Jesus and ask Him to make good come from our suffering.

 

May God Be Praised.

 

Blog Post 04-12-2025 - The Mystery of Following Jesus

 

 

Ponder these three insights into being a disciple of Jesus Christ. St. Catherine of Siena said, “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."

 

 

 

 

 

St. Francis de Sales wrote, “Be who you are and be that well.”

 

 

 Pope Francis offered, "The Son of God manifests his Lordship not ‘from the top down,’ not from a distance, but in bending down, stretching out his hand; he manifests his Lordship in closeness, in tenderness, in compassion. Closeness, tenderness, compassion are the style of God. God draws near, and he draws near with tenderness and compassion. How many times in the Gospel before a health problem or any problem do we read: ‘he had compassion.”’ Jesus’ compassion, God’s closeness in Jesus is God’s style."

 

 

Today reflect on “being who God wants you to be today,” and when tomorrow gets here it will be today, so you can, again, "be who God wants you to be today.”

May God Be Praised.

 

Blog Post 04-11-2025 A Lenten Message

 

“I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. I will put my laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts, not with ink but with the spirit of the living God.

I will not write my law upon tablets of stone, but upon the tablets of human hearts. And inscribe them on their hearts, not with ink but with the spirit of the living God.”

 

[Responsory 03-12-2025 [Wednesday of the 1st Week of Lent – Office of Reading:  Hebrews 8:8, 10; 2 Corinthians 3:3]

I will do says the Lord, believe Him.

May God Be Praised.

Blog Post 04-10-2025 Life as the Sea of Life

 

Vincent van Gogh: “It is true there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea.” 

Henri Nouwen wrote, “O Lord, sea of love and goodness, let me not fear too much the storms and winds of my daily life, and let me know there is ebb and flow but the sea remains the sea.”

 

Today may we worship God who holds the world and its wonders in his creating hand - the sea, the earth, the moon, the planets and most importantly us.

May God Be Praised.

 

 

Blog Post 4-09-2025 An Insight for Holy Living

 

“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God."

The founder of the Jesuits and great saint, Ignatius of Loyola, offers us this profound insight as a principle for daily living.

 

May God Be Praised.