by Greg Beben | Jul 13, 2024 | Meditations
Today’s Gospel gives us a beautiful example of obedience on the part of the Apostles. They had been with Jesus for some time and had sat at the feet of the Master. They had learned from his words and his example how authority can be used for service and how simplicity...
by Greg Beben | Jul 6, 2024 | Meditations
The three readings today speak of God sending three faithful messengers – Ezekiel, Paul, and the Lord Jesus – to his people. We learn that being sent does not necessarily mean being accepted. Though we are weak and we find resistance intimidating, the Lord is...
by Greg Beben | Jun 29, 2024 | Meditations
The entire Bible tells us that the God who reveals himself to us in Jesus Christ is the God who is the source of life and not of death. Jesus himself, the complete revelation of God (cf. Col 2:9), tells us that he has come “that we may have life and have it to the...
by Greg Beben | Jun 22, 2024 | Meditations
Commenting on the state of the world today, sometimes people will say things like, “the world is going to hell in a handbasket.” This idiomatic expression means that there are so many problems and everything is headed in such a bad direction that the world will end up...
by Greg Beben | Jun 15, 2024 | Meditations
“… [T]hrough it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.” Jesus uses the mysterious process by which a seed germinates and grows as an image of how the Kingdom of God grows. We live in the midst of many things, both natural and supernatural, that we...
by Greg Beben | Jun 8, 2024 | Meditations
We begin the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time by going back to the beginning, to the Book of Genesis, the first book in the Bible, and to the early days of man in creation. In the verses before today’s passage, the serpent tempted Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden...
