From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts September 18 – Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Our readings this week deliver a message that is hard to understand – or maybe it’s just a message we don’t want to hear! We are reminded in the first reading and the Psalm of God’s preferential option
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts May 30 – Most Holy Trinity Sunday This week we celebrate the Most Holy Trinity – God’s perfection! We are at the very core of God's Love. We are made in the image of God, Through the Trinity, God helps to draw us in. In the sign of the
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts March 20 – Third Sunday in Lent At this time of year we focus in a particular way on leading catechumenates (those who are not baptized and seek to join our faith) deeper into their relationship with Jesus. For the next three weeks we hear readings
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts July 24 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time I have often marveled at the courage of Abraham to haggle with God in our first reading this week. It is the well-known story of Sodom and Gomorrah. How often I have found myself wanting to bargain in the same
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts May 15 – Fifth Sunday of Easter Our gospel finds Jesus giving final instructions to the apostles as he prepares for what is to come. “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified with him!” The final victory is soon to be won, when there will be “a new
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts May 23 – Pentecost Sunday Potential! That’s what that frightened band of men – the apostles – that’s what they had until that Pentecost so long ago. The Spirit descended upon them and suddenly this cowardly, frightened group became enabled and emboldened by the Spirit to do
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts May 22 – Sixth Sunday of Easter “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come and make our dwelling in him.” This week continues the message of last week. Jesus is with the apostles at the Last Supper and is preparing
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts May 16 – Ascension Sunday As we sit here today, we find ourselves in a new and different place. We are entering a time of new beginnings, a time when we are called to re-engage with each other. We enter with lingering fears, but new found confidence and
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts August 21 – Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Have you ever noticed, Jesus does not seem to do yes or no answers? But he gets his point across! He and the disciples have been traveling the road to Jerusalem. The journey is not easy. It is
From the Deacon’s Desk: Prayer and Inspirational Thoughts July 10 – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time We hear the story of the Good Samaritan this week – one of the most familiar in all the gospels. It comes in response to the question from the scholar of “Who is my neighbor?” after Jesus gives him what we know