(Luke 6:17-26) Today we’re talking blessings and woes, blessings meaning all the gifts and graces that God gives us, and woes, meaning the opposite, all the curses that we take…
(Luke 5:1-11) Today’s great story about how Jesus calls the fishermen to follow him on the path to discipleship has three great lines which we can reflect about. First, we…
(Luke 4:21-30; 1 Cor. 13:4-13) The good news today is that God loves us, each one of us, and God calls us to love one another. St. Paul reminds us…
I consider Martin Luther King, Jr. the great, holy prophet to the nation. He was a prophet of nonviolence sent by the God of peace and justice to call our…
(Luke 4:16-22) Today we hear the beginning of the Gospel of Luke, plus part one of the famous two part story of Jesus’ visit to his hometown synagogue. Jesus has…
(John 2:1-11 ) In 1982, just before I entered the Jesuits, I went to Israel and spent several months walking through the Holy Land to learn more about Jesus, and…
(Luke 3:15-16, 21-22) I thought we could look briefly at the baptism of Jesus and see what it means for Jesus, what it means for us, and what it means…
“Pilgrimage Through a Burning World: Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site” a new book by Ken Butigan (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003,…
(Matthew 2:1-19) One way to reflect on this great story of the Epiphany is to see it as the three movements of the spiritual life: the journey to Christ; the…
CIMARRON, NM— Rev. John Dear was no stranger to controversy before he arrived in New Mexico in 2002. And he's found plenty since he got here. The 44-year-old Jesuit says…