April 24, 2024 | by Marianne Seggerman | It is so easy to lose focus these days. We are bombarded by messages from marketers and media. Today’s reflection reminds us that in the midst of it all we are called only to nurture Love in our hearts, and trust that all will be well.
Breath of the Spirit
April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024 | by Jeff Vomund | How often have we thought, “I can’t let people know ______ about me! No one would love me if they knew that!” … In today’s gospel, Jesus asserts that precisely the opposite is true. Ignorance of another cannot pave the way for love. We can only love someone to the extent that we know them.
April 12, 2024
April 12, 2024 | by John Falcone | This Sunday’s Scriptures offer examples of bearing witness to Jesus in dramatic moments. In real life, it is not always easy to discern when courage requires us to speak up or to remain silent. Today’s reflection suggests that we will discern the call of courage when we stay connected to the dignity of each member of our human family.
April 4, 2024
April 3, 2024 | by Lori Ranner | It is easy, almost a given, to see doubt and faith as opposites. But as the story of “doubting” Thomas – and today’s reflection upon it – make clear, doubt is not faith’s opposite, but the condition which makes faith possible. And as such, doubt – even our doubt – is sacred.
March 20, 2024
March 20, 2024 | by Richard Young | It is easy to get lost in the details (and the length) of the Passion stories! Our minds can wander as we wonder what really happened. Today’s reflection reminds us to focus on the meaning of the Passion stories – not only as what Jesus did for us, but as what Love asks us to do for one another.
March 13, 2024
March 13, 2024 | by Sam Barnes | In today’s fast-paced world, we may find ourselves delaying check-ins for noncrucial issues. This week’s readings invite us to revisit the parts of us that we can let go of during the Lent if we seek to move toward our more authentic selves.
March 7, 2024
March 6, 2024 | by Catherine Buck | If one is not careful, they can read Jesus’ words to Nicodemus as if light and darkness were enemies. Today’s reflection reminds us, however, that those two realities are interdependent. We cannot fully experience one without the other. And Love is with us us—no matter light or shadows that mark our view.
February 28, 2024
February 28, 2024 | by Ann Marie Szpakowska | Jesus offers the “woman at the well” living water but note that Jesus’ offer wells up from within her. Jesus opens us to receive what we already have! Is there a better model for how we, as disciples, are to live in the world? Through our interactions, we hope others experience just a bit more powerfully the Spirit of Love that is already at the very center of who they are.
February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024 | by David Jackson | Jesus’ transfiguration can seem like a mysterious miracle that defies explanation or relevance to our own lives. But today’s reflection reminds us that Jesus’ change is grounded in the same belovedness which is the Divine’s gift to all creation, and to each of us.
February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024 | by Jon Schum | Too often Christians approach Lent as just another in a long list of things we are supposed to do. Today’s reflection, however, encourages us to see Lent as an invitation to deeper participation in the Reign of God: a reality not defined by long lists of life-choking demands, but rather by transcendent moments of life-changing beauty.