What keeps me entombed?
Steve Bogner has a post on his blog, Way of the Cross-Jesus Body is Buried. At the end of his post he states, “What is it in my life that keeps me entombed?” I’ve been thinking on that one for…
Grateful living
Tomorrow I will travel to Mt. Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York. I spent a couple of days there in February. I found it inviting and in that spirit I feel invited again to spend a couple of days…
Light of Christ
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth. That’s the first of the many readings tonight at the vigil service. I thought of the similarity between this reading and the John 1;1, “In the beginning was the…
What is truth?
“For this I was born and for this I came into the world,to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” Taken from St. John’s Gospel in…
The Passover of the Lord
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year… It is the Passover of the Lord. Taken…
Immigrant Justice
My heart swells with pride and tears rim my eyes as I watch Cardinal McCarrick address a crowd of 200,000 in Washington, D.C. I am not bilingual and I cannot understand what he is saying, but the ear of my…
You betray the Son of Man?
“Judas, you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” I can betray the Son of Man with what I kiss. What am I kissing today that betrays the Son of Man? As I listened to yesterday’s Gospel it became…
I have no idea where I am going
I began my day driving to Mt. Irenaeus. It was a beautiful day, blue and cloudless sky, which is quite unusual in western New York state, much of the time. When I got to the Franciscan Retreat Center I climbed…
Alabaster in our lives
Paula has a nice post this morning that is taken from today’s gospel. I think we all have alabaster jars that we can give to the Lord. We just don’t recognize the alabaster in our lives. More Light: Just before…
Give peace a chance
I just read a very disturbing piece that was written by Seymour Hersh in which he describes in detail plans that are being drawn up at this moment for a nuclear attack on Iran. This pre-emptive strike is being planned…