by Greg Beben | Mar 23, 2024 | Meditations
Holy Week, or Passion Week, ushers us into the very pinnacle of our Catholic faith. It gives us a new opportunity to immerse ourselves in the heart of the salvation story, and to encounter the very essence of Jesus and his saving mission. It is an opportunity not to...
by Greg Beben | Mar 16, 2024 | Meditations
When we read Jeremiah’s prophecy, we are astounded that God would promise so much to people who were so undeserving. Generations of the Chosen People had sought God’s favor, and had offered countless sacrifices, but they had also repeatedly disobeyed him. Despite...
by Greg Beben | Mar 9, 2024 | Meditations
God so loved the world… These familiar words from today’s Gospel are actually a radical announcement about God and his relationship with us: He loves us! This is part of the joyful proclamation we ponder on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, also known as Laetare Sunday...
by Greg Beben | Mar 2, 2024 | Meditations
The Ten Commandments have been given a bad reputation in modern society. They are looked down on, as if they were the classic proof of how negative and repressive religion is. Self-confident non-believers ask: Who wants to listen to some ancient myth about a divine...
by Greg Beben | Feb 24, 2024 | Meditations
Either God is everything to us, and we give him everything, or we live as if he is just another detail to keep track of, while keeping our most precious things for ourselves. Part of the challenge of Lent is to put God once more at the very center of our lives, no...
by Greg Beben | Feb 17, 2024 | Meditations
In the Spiritual Reflection chosen for this week, Pope Francis, reflecting on today’s short Gospel from St. Mark, says that the Lenten journey we have just begun takes place in “the desert of solitude,” which is also a place of “battle.” This may seem to be a...
