The Scriptures are filled with striking visuals for our lives of faith, and in particular for our lives of prayer. One...
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Modeling Virtue
by Tom McKenna, CM | September 18, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
One of the occupational hazards of people who study religion and theology is to equate ideas with the force behind them.
All Creation, Praise God (Mt 6:26-30)
by Tom McKenna, CM | September 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 3 Comments
In many different instances, Jesus shows awareness of a world wider than the human one.
llluminators (Matthew 16: 15)
by Tom McKenna, CM | August 21, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times, lays out two different styles of interpersonal relating. One he calls the llluminator and the other the Diminisher.
Is It Enough? (John 6:1-15)
by Tom McKenna, CM | August 7, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 3 Comments
A commentator on these readings posed a beguiling question: “how much is enough?”
From Deep Within (Romans 8:26-7)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Aug 9, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
There’s a way of looking at our religion as a series of truths to be acknowledged and then followed out.
Drinking At The Fountain of God’s Word (Isaiah 55: 10-11)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jul 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
With this hot weather scorching many parts of the globe, it’s not hard to appreciate the metaphor the prophet Isaiah offers as a picture of how it is between ourselves and God — more specifically, between ourselves and the Word of God.
Experiencing The Spirit’s Descent (Acts 10: 25-48)
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 19, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
When we meet love in our lives, we are experiencing The Spirit.
Setting Out (Acts 9:1-20)
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 5, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
As far as beginnings go, we’d have to look far and wide to find something more dramatic than the one portrayed in chapter 9 of the Acts of the Apostles: Paul knocked over and blinded on that Damascus road.
“First Generation Disciples”(John 10: 14-15)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
“Handing on the tradition” is a phrase often connected with matters of faith.
Living “As If”(Acts 4: Jn 20)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 7, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Where are the assurances that these claims about Jesus rising to new life have any substance?
We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 24, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
All of us have heard the phrase, “living in the past.” Usually it has a negative ring – – somebody missing out on the good things happening now because he or she lives on memories of a bygone day.
Entering “The New Temple” (Jn 2:13-25)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 10, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
“Dense” is a one-word description for people who have trouble seeing beneath the surface of things.
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (1 Cor: 10:31)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Feb 24, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
How is that the glory of God supplies motivation, gives the impetus for getting up and doing something?
In Praise of Complaining! (Job 7:17; Mk 1: 29-31)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Feb 10, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Job has the well-deserved reputation as a complainer. Throwing up his hands, he whines to God, “How long is this misery going to lasts, this drudgery, these troubled nights.” (Job 7:1-7)
The Call: Where and What? (Mk 1:14-20)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jan 27, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
God’s Call is a theme that runs all through the Scriptures. Where does God’s call occur and to what does it summon us?