I came across a writer who drew on her experience to add some personal texture to Jesus’ words at his Last Supper, “As I have loved you, so love one another.”

by Tom McKenna, CM | July 9, 2025 | Reflections | 0 Comments
There are questions and there are QUESTIONS. How about the life-altering one Jesus puts to Peter in Matthew’s gospel?
by Pat Griffin, CM | July 2, 2025 | Reflections | 1 Comment
Last week, we celebrated the Sacred Heart of Jesus followed by the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It seems appropriate to link these two celebrations.
by Tom McKenna, CM | June 25, 2025 | Reflections | 1 Comment
Some time ago I came upon what you might call a “3 Preposition Formula” that aimed to provide a framework for understanding something of the mystery of our Trinitarian God, our “3-personned” God.
by Pat Griffin, CM | June 18, 2025 | Reflections | 1 Comment
This year’s observance of a “Jubilee of Hope,” our recent celebration of Pentecost, and last week’s memorial for St. Barnabas all tend in the same direction for me.
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jun 11, 2025 | Reflections
I came across a writer who drew on her experience to add some personal texture to Jesus’ words at his Last Supper, “As I have loved you, so love one another.”
by Pat Griffin, CM | Jun 4, 2025 | Reflections
I have been blessed with the privilege of visiting the Marian shrines at Lourdes and Knock several times. I have spent some hours in those special places of prayer.
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 28, 2025 | Reflections
The Lord Jesus has his favorite images. Toward the top of the list is the one of shepherd and sheep – not just any shepherd, but the one who is the Good Shepherd.
by Pat Griffin, CM | Apr 9, 2025 | Reflections
The synoptic passion narratives are similar, but there are unique elements. One is the story of the Good Thief in Luke’s Gospel which we hear on this Palm/Passion Sunday.
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 2, 2025 | Reflections
There’s a way of coming at our Christian faith that links it with perfection.
by Pat Griffin, CM | Mar 26, 2025 | Reflections
Whenever we have the reading from the Book of Exodus in which Moses encounters the Lord in the burning bush, I am immediately put in mind of the Church in which I am celebrating the Eucharist.
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 19, 2025 | Reflections
Several commentators use the word “intimate” to describe the incident in Mark’s gospel of Jesus healing the blind man. There’s a lot of physical touching involved.
by Pat Griffin, CM | Mar 12, 2025 | Reflections
In 2002, Pope John Paul II gave the Church the Luminous Mysteries of the rosary—the so/called Mysteries of Light. One of these mysteries is the Transfiguration.
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 5, 2025 | Reflections
For many believers, the portrait sketched out in the 23rd psalm is the most stirring of them all. “The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.” It’s a scene that has engraved itself on countless imaginations all through the centuries.
by Pat Griffin, CM | Feb 26, 2025 | Reflections
It is the rare weekend when I celebrate mass and someone does not ask me to pray for a particular need.
by Tom McKenna, CM | Feb 19, 2025 | Reflections
If we ever longed for a paradise scene, a place of rest where it all comes together, psalm 23 paints it.
by Pat Griffin, CM | Feb 12, 2025 | Reflections
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians has one powerful line that has defined my self-awareness for most of my life. “By God’s grace, I am what I am.”