JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, It’s the first recess of the first day of school for two first graders (in the days before kindergarten), and two little girls come running to me in the school
JMJV Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel, Mark 9:38-48, Jesus is speaking to all of us on more than one subject. Let us consider for a few moments the more thought-provoking part of this Gospel passage.
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, Children are wonderful. Sometimes I think they’ve been recycled: they are so smart at such a young age that they must have been here before. This week I was
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel (Mark 8:27-35), Jesus says to those who were listening to Him, Whoever wishes to come after Me must deny himself, take up His cross and follow Me.
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, Today the Gospel brings us, through Mark 7:31-37, into the area of the Lake of Galilee. Jesus has come to preach, and a man is brought into his presence who can
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
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
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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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,
Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul Reflection for the Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. At the risk of sounding irreverent, I will tell you a true story from the annals of my years teaching little children in Religious Education programs. Once Father
Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul By Mother Marie Julie, SCMC My Dear Good People, Today’s readings at Mass are full of peace, especially the peace of ‘the flock’ that rests in knowing that the shepherd is ever aware and watchful for
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