by Greg Beben | Mar 8, 2025 | Meditations
In today’s Gospel we read about Jesus’ forty days in the desert, where the Holy Spirit led him to do battle with the devil. There are many references in the Bible to periods of testing and trial that last for forty days or forty years. The great flood in the days of...
by Greg Beben | Mar 4, 2025 | Meditations
The solemn and striking Liturgy of Ash Wednesday alerts us to the new Season that has begun and gives us a time to reflect and discover what sins and attachments God wants to free us from so that he can fill us with his own life. There is much more to Ash Wednesday...
by Greg Beben | Mar 1, 2025 | Meditations
As a very timely preparation for the approaching holy Season of Lent, the Liturgy on this Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time gives us great insight into the relationship between our exterior behavior and our interior life, between what everyone can see and what God sees....
by Greg Beben | Feb 22, 2025 | Meditations
In the Book of Genesis, we read that God created us human beings to be like himself: “God created mankind in his image, in the image of God he created them” (Gen 1:27). So by our very nature, we are like God. But what does it mean to be “like God”? St. John gives us...
by Greg Beben | Feb 15, 2025 | Meditations
At the heart of this Sunday’s readings is the teaching which Jesus gives us in the Beatitudes. This teaching can seem quite contradictory to us, because Jesus proclaims as blessed precisely those who do not seem at all blessed in the eyes of the world, and he gives a...
by Greg Beben | Feb 8, 2025 | Meditations
This Sunday’s readings have a common theme running through them: the experience of a sinful person being called by God to do a particular task: Isaiah the prophet, Paul, “the least of the apostles,” and Simon Peter the fisherman. Each feels unworthy but comes to...
