We disciples of Christ profess to follow the Lord Jesus– and this week in particular, we would follow Him to Jerusalem.
McKenna
The Shining Gaze (Ps 4:7a; Lk 24:36-80)
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
A favorite verse, Psalm 4, reads: “Lord, let your face shine upon us.” It summons up a very warm and private kind of experience that each of us in our own way can recognize.
Solidarity – in Life, Death, and New Life (Mark 14:1-15:47)
by Tom McKenna, CM | April 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
A remark I once overheard: “I don’t mind suffering when nobody knows about it – as long as somebody knows about it!”
John 3:16 – Read It!
by Tom McKenna, CM | April 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
If you’ve watched any sports events over the last decades, you’ve seen banners held high, calling attention to a famous passage in John’s Gospel.
A Closer Walk (John 2:13-25)
by Tom McKenna, CM | March 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Early in St. John’s gospel, we see Jesus resolutely striding into the outer courtyard of the Jerusalem Temple, a space bordering on what the Jewish people acknowledged to be God’s own Dwelling place.
Never Alone (John 11:1-45)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 22, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
One of the heaviest of feelings is the one of being alone. You hear it in the cry of an infant, and more generally you catch it in the forlorn look of any lonely person.
Seeing What’s There (John 9:39)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 8, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
How many times have you heard people use the phrase, “I finally woke up?”
Nativity Power
by Tom McKenna, CM | Dec 30, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
The Christmas gospel from St. Luke starts out on a theme of power, the political power of an absolute ruler, Caesar Augustus.
Setting the Stage (Mark 1:1-8)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Dec 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
I read an account of a high school boy who had, as the story title put it, “Made it Easier to be Honest.”
A Holy Nudge (Is 61; Jn 1:19-28)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Dec 16, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
One of my favorite words, both because of the way it sounds and what it connotes, is “nudge”
In The Mood (Mk 13:37)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Dec 2, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
We’ve all heard the term “mood music.” It refers to the power music has to set a tone, move us through different feeling states.
A Steadying Presence (Ps 128; Romans 8:35-39)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Nov 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
“God” is not just another word, but rather the designation of the overflowing reality at the heart of everything.
Given A Break (Ex. 22:20; Mt 22:38-40)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Nov 4, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
In his unaffected way, he was voicing a truth that runs across the whole length of the Bible and all down the avenues of our faith: “I give help because I have been helped.”
Lifting the Veil (Is. 25: 6-8; Phil 4:20; Mt 22:1-14)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Oct 21, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
One of the favorite images seen all through the Scriptures is the feast, the sumptuous banquet overflowing, as Isaiah pictures it, with “juicy, rich food and choice wines.”
A Collaborative Witness (Luke 8:1-3)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Oct 7, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Certainly the words and actions of such groups are meant to proclaim God’s Kingdom, but their very collaboration is itself an announcement of the Message.
Magis (Matthew 20:1-16)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Sep 23, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
There is the Jesuit one-word motto, “magis,” the Latin for “more,” meant to remind them that God is always “more than,” always greater. But greater than what?