THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Mt 4:12-23  Dear Friends, Today we have our first selection from the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus introduces two themes that will be the foundat...

SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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John 1:29-34  Dear Friends, St. Matthew is our guide as we walk with Jesus in the beginning of Ordinary Time of our liturgical year. I alway...

THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

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Matthew 3:13-17  Dear Friends, St. Matthew begins the public life of Jesus with the Baptism of the Son of God. In spite of the Baptist’s rel...

THE FALSE SELF AND THE TRUE SELF-2

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Introduction  This is the second of eleven reflections on Thomas Merton’s teaching on the True Self/False Self dynamic. This conflictual but...

EPIPHANY

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Mt 2:1-12  Dear Friends, The Infancy Narratives in Matthew in chapters one and two are called a miniature Gospel. They affirm three basic po...

HOLY FAMILY

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Mt2:13-5, 19-23  Dear Friends. The fundamental message of our Christmas Season is that “the Word was made flesh” (Jn 1:14) . The emphasis is...

CHIRISTMAS REFLECTION

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As we celebrate this Christmas day the truth is that we have no place on earth and no individual that is free from the consequences of our f...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Mt 1:18-24 Dear Friends, No matter how much we try, it is a truly an uphill battle to truly grasp , “Jesus is the reason for the Season!” Ov...

THE FALSE SELF AND THE TRUE SELF-1

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Merton’s Gift Leading To Deep Personal Prayer   Recently, I had the opportunity to read, reflect on and pray with some of the many wonderful...

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Mt 11:2-11 Dear Friends, In today’s Scripture, Isaiah draws a poetic picture of the Jews walking away into freedom after fifty years of angu...

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Matt 3:1-12 Dear Friends. Advent is an invitation to ponder the Christian perspective on time. Time, for the Christian, is not the relentles...

THE FALSE SELF AND THE TRUE SELF

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Introduction I am going to offer the following eleven reflections on Thomas Merton’s teaching on the True Self/False Self dynamic. This conf...

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Matthew 24:37-44 Dear Friends, Advent invites us into a new year in which we journey with the Gospel of Matthew. This is a graced time when ...

CHRIST THE KING

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The Thirty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Lk 23: 35-43 Dear Friends, On this feast of Christ the King, we celebrate a “kingdom of truth and ...

CALL TO HOLINESS-4

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Evangelization and Contemplation: Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus Over the past several years, I have called upon Teresa of Avila and Pope Francis...