by Greg Beben | Aug 14, 2024 | Meditations
The readings for today’s glorious feast, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, offer us an opportunity to look back into salvation history to an earlier event in Mary’s life, the Visitation, and to the “great sign” in the sky in the Book of Revelation, and to the...
by Greg Beben | Aug 10, 2024 | Meditations
The Gospel reading today takes us into the heart of Jesus’ discourse on the Bread of Life. Here the Lord speaks about what we honor as the Source and Summit of our faith: the Holy Eucharist. Unlike every other teacher or prophet who came before or after him, Jesus...
by Greg Beben | Aug 5, 2024 | Meditations
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration. When God the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, came down to earth to suffer, die, and rise again for our redemption, he “clothed himself” in human flesh. In doing so, he “veiled” his divine glory and appeared...
by Greg Beben | Aug 3, 2024 | Meditations
Every time we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” we acknowledge that God is the one who feeds us. Everything we have is a gift from him. Yet we do not always think this way. In times of abundance, we tend to take for granted whatever we have. In times of want,...
by Greg Beben | Jul 27, 2024 | Meditations
“Give it to the people to eat.” This instruction of the Prophet Elisha to his servant in the first reading is clear and simple. But with only twenty barley loaves at hand, the servant objects, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” The Gospel involves a similar...
by Greg Beben | Jul 20, 2024 | Meditations
In the ancient world, leadership was often described using the imagery of shepherds and sheep. This imagery appears throughout the Bible to depict God’s people (the sheep) and their leaders (the shepherds). However, today’s Psalm, the well-known Psalm 23, makes it...
