by Greg Beben | Mar 18, 2023 | Meditations
As we progress through the Lenten season towards Holy Week, we are given a Gospel that reveals the spiritual progress of a man blind from birth. The account begins with Jesus and the disciples seeing this man and discussing his situation of blindness. Blindness, like...
by Greg Beben | Mar 11, 2023 | Meditations
In this Season of Lent, we have gone into the “desert” with Jesus, leaving “Egypt,” which can symbolize our slavery to the ways of the world. Now that we have been journeying for two and a half weeks, we might begin to feel like the Israelites in the first reading....
by Greg Beben | Mar 4, 2023 | Meditations
Pope Francis, in this week’s Spiritual Reflection, tells us that Jesus chose Peter, James, and John “according to his plan of love,” to accompany him up the high mountain. There, above the noise of the villages below, Jesus is transfigured. He appears with Moses and...
by Greg Beben | Feb 25, 2023 | Meditations
On the first Sunday of Lent we turn to the account of Jesus’ temptations in the desert. The first line of the Gospel says, “At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights and afterwards he...
by Greg Beben | Feb 22, 2023 | Seasonal Introductions
Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, but the First Week of Lent begins with the First Sunday. This leaves the three days between Ash Wednesday and the First Sunday in an unusual liturgical interval; they are part of Lent, but not part of the weeks of Lent. Their official...
