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Given at Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House during a Day of Prayer focused on making decisions through discernment, Fr. Michael contrasts the unifying nature of God with the divisive nature of sin. Mark 3:22-30 The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he…
This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. This Feast has its own readings and Gospel, separate from the current cycle. If this Sunday were Ordinary Time we would hear Matthew 5:1-12, the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, also known as the Beatitudes which Fr. Jim explores in today’s…
Jesus shows in the Gospel that the Law and human compassion are not always in sync with each other. Weaving this story into our modern times, Fr. Michael preaches that even though abortion is legal and giving basic human aid to illegal immigrants illegal, as Christians we must speak truth to power when our faith…
God called to Samuel in the night and after three times, Samuel said, “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.” Fr. Michael urges us to seek the grace to listen for God’s call. Mark 1:29-39 On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with…
John 1:29-34 John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but…
Jesus did miraculous things; signs that his power was from God and greater than our own. Fear and worry are not from God but in the midst of storms, famine or sickness it is all too easy to get lost in our worries and fears. Fr. Michael reminds us that God’s love for us is…
Fr. Jim did not record a Gospel Study to match this weeks reading from Matthew detailing Jesus’ baptism by John. This passage from Luke gives a greater account of John. Listen as Fr. Jim teaches us a little more about who John was and the mission he undertook. Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of…
Luke 2:1-14 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea,…
Joseph’s mind was made up but then an angel came to him in a dream and the course of his life and ours changed forever. Matthew 1:18-25 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child…
Matthew 1:18-24 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly.…