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Good News to all creation.” Mark 16:15
“Treat others the way you would have them treat you: this sums up the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12 We’ve all been in traffic before. Perhaps you’ve gotten frustrated or angry. Unfortunately, it’s all too common to join in the road rage. But what would happen if we didn’t allow ourselves to join in…
“Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all his work he had undertaken. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.” Genesis 2:2-3 Steven…
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.” Psalm 118:24 An older businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal village when a boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the fisherman on the quality…
For this week’s Practices for Pandemic, Fr. Michael leads Lectio Divina or Divine Reading of Mark 4:35-41 where Jesus wakes and calms the storm at sea. This audio meditation is inspired by Pope Francis’ 2020 Urbi et Orbi meditation, see below for a link to watch a recording of Pope Francis give this talk to…
Filmed among the blooming flowers and trees at Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House, Fr. Michael offers a reflection on Psalm 8 and the beauty of God as found in the natural world around us. Scroll down to read Psalm 8. Psalm 8 O LORD, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth! I…
“We know that God makes all things work together for the good of those who have been called according to God’s decree.” Romans 8:28 A professor entered her classroom and asked her students to “prepare for a surprise exam.” After understandable moaning, the students readied their desks, waiting for the exam to be passed out.…
“I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in them will produce abundantly, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 A young woman took great pride in her gardens, having learned from her grandmother how to grow and care for all types of flowers. She was…
“For all these reasons, let anyone who thinks they are standing upright watch out lest they fall!” 1 Corinthians 10:12 Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick told the story of a tree that used to stand tall on the slope of Longs Peak in Colorado. But today, little remains of the once proud tree that naturalists believe…
“Sing to the Lord, all the earth; announce his salvation, day after day. Tell his glory among the nations, among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.” 1 Chronicles 16:23 In a commencement address to the University of Texas, Admiral William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, told the graduates about the grueling training…
“He said to me, ‘My grace is enough for you, for in weakness, power reaches perfection.’ And so I willingly boast of my weaknesses instead, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 Years ago, a water bearer had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which…