In recent years I have reflected on that wonderful phrase of Pope Francis – “the saints next door.”
John Freund
Learning to See What Jesus Sees?
That day, as Jesus sat in the temple precincts, what impressed him? What caught his eye?
Do You Ignore “Nudges”?
A big storm approaches. The weatherman urges everyone to get to higher ground. In his rectory, a priest says, “I won’t worry, God will save me.”
Systemic Change Calls For Paying Attention
There are things we see but don’t pay attention to.
What Can We Learn From Anniversaries?
Whatever the anniversary, it gives us a chance to look back over the years since the event we’re marking, and reflect on how it has shaped us.
Systemic Change – What My Mother Taught Me
When will we really buy into the systemic change of thinking Jesus came to show us?
Reacting to Different Ways of Thinking
Looking at Jesus through the eyes of a Jewish person or a Gentile.
Acts of the Apostles, Systemic Change and Polarization
Over the next several weeks the liturgy, drawing from the Acts of the Apostles, presents selected stories of ordinary people who coped with severe polarization some 2,000 years ago.
Beyond Waving Palm Branches
On Palm Sunday will I be waving the palm branches of my blind spots or holding high the cross of God’s universal love?
I am doing something new!
For a variety of reasons, we sometimes can not see what is right before our eyes.
Falling In Love With “Real Families”
It is a shame that most people only hear polarized pundits cherry-picking from a select few paragraphs, or even just footnotes, in what in reality is an inspiring document describing and addressed to the real family of today.
How Could This Happen?
“All God’s people carry within themselves the same potencies that energized the early Christian movement…”
