Spilling Innocent Blood
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Maybe this could be "Hug a Jesuit Day!" More prophet talk for us today. In the first reading, the priests and prophets want Jeremiah ...
Pain of a Prophet
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »In both of our readings today, we see and hear that prophets get "dissed." In Jeremiah 26, our first reading, we see Jeremiah saying everything that God tells him to say. The people's response? "You must be put to death!" ...
Faith and Rest
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | 2 Comments »Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Martha. There are two different Gospel choices for today. We see a different aspect of Martha in each, and we will talk about both. Martha was an interesting woman. She was the sister of ...
Pearl of Great Price
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | 1 Comment »In Jeremiah 15 today, God speaks of the need for repentance. "Thus the Lord answered me: If you repent, so that I restore you, in my presence you shall stand." Yet another reminder for us that repentance only brings about ...
Weed Moments
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »In the first reading today from Jeremiah 14, the prophet mourns when he looks out over the destruction caused by the sins of the people. He laments, "Have you cast Judah off completely? Is Zion loathsome to you?" He then ...
Good For Nothing
Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »Today's first reading from Jeremiah 13 seems a very odd tale at first. God tells Jeremiah to go buy a loincloth, then go hide it, then go get it again. Inevitably, the loincloth rots. In the Gospel from Matthew 13, ...
Persistence
Sunday, July 25th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | 1 Comment »In the Gospel from Luke 11, Luke gives us his version of the Our Father. After that, Jesus tells the disciples a story about persistence. In it, a man gets help from a neighbor, but only after being blown off. ...
Weed or Wheat?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »Today's Gospel reading from Matthew 13 is the parable of the weeds and the wheat. A bad guy comes and sows weed seeds into a man's wheat field. When the servants find out, they ask the master if they should ...
The Soil Test
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »The prophets all had a common message. We see the crux of it at the beginning of today's first reading from Jeremiah 3. "Return, rebellious children, says the Lord, for I am your Master." In today's Gospel reading from Matthew ...
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 Posted in :60 Reflections | No Comments »Today is the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. There are different options for the first reading, so I'll let you read them and mull them over yourself. You can choose from Song of Song 3:1-4 or 2 Corinthians 5:14-17. The ...
