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...
by Greg Beben | Jun 7, 2024 | Meditations
Yesterday we celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and today we follow with the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church has chosen to put these two special days back-to-back to impress on us that the essence of...
by Greg Beben | Jun 6, 2024 | Meditations
The heart represents the center or essence of a person or an idea. We say such things as, “take it to heart,” “get to the heart of the matter,” “don’t break my heart,” and other phrases. We speak of the heart as the wellspring of love and the seat of all that we...
