by Greg Beben | May 8, 2021 | Meditations
St. John tells in today’s second reading that God is Love. It is to this Love that the Easter season, our fifty-day journey celebrating the Easter mystery, keeps directing us. The essence of God is his love, which is most powerfully expressed through the Death of...
by Greg Beben | May 1, 2021 | Meditations
We continue to ponder the mystery, power, and beauty of the Resurrection. When we encounter the Risen Lord Jesus, it is an intimate encounter with Love, for, as St. John writes in his First Letter, “God is love” (1 Jn 4:16). Today’s first reading shows us how the...
by Greg Beben | Apr 24, 2021 | Meditations
The beautiful title given to this day is “Good Shepherd Sunday.” Pope Francis, in his Spiritual Reflection, gives us a profound message about who the Good Shepherd is: he is the One who loves us unconditionally, who says to us, “Your life is worth so much to me, that...
by Greg Beben | Apr 17, 2021 | Meditations
Christianity proclaims something unique, something that no other religion professes: that God became incarnate; he took on a real human body; he experienced all that we experience in our bodies – hunger and thirst, fatigue, excitement, sorrow, joy, anger, pain,...
by Greg Beben | Mar 27, 2021 | Meditations
We have come to Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s liturgical year. We make every effort to enter fully into this week, during which our task may be described in Jesus’ words to Peter, James and John in the garden: “Remain here and keep watch.” We strive to...
