Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time   When I was a sophomore in high school there was a small group of us students who were discerning a vocation to the Religious Life. We lived together in a small house on the Motherhouse

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Solemnity of the Assumption

My Dear Good People, Nearly every adult I know has endured the grief of losing a loved one to death. Whether the loss was sudden or expected, we can be ambushed by the emotions that overwhelm us and the realization that our loved one has

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August 8, 2021

JMJV Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. My Dear Good People, This week in the Church’s calendar we honor two very different people who were deported to the death camps during the Second World War: one because she was Jewish and a convert to Catholicism, the

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August 1, 2021

JMJV Reflection for the Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. My Dear Good People, Today I’m reflecting on miracles. The Gospel for this Sunday refers to the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes–a great miracle–but there have been many highlighted in the past few weeks’ Gospels,

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