by Greg Beben | Nov 29, 2025 | Meditations
A blessed new Liturgical Year to all! Today we begin a new Year with the Season of Advent. New beginnings, especially in our journey of faith, offer something exciting and hopeful, a chance to renew and to start over. We enter into Year A, so our Sunday Gospels will...
by Greg Beben | Nov 22, 2025 | Meditations
We begin this final week of the Church’s Liturgical Year with the great celebration of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. In our time we are not very familiar with kings. We think of them as something from the past, or at most as figureheads to perform public...
by Greg Beben | Nov 15, 2025 | Meditations
The world strives and struggles to build many structures and make many improvements. However, anything that is not done in God and for God cannot last. All that is of earth will finally come to an end. Only God and his will and all who are in his will can remain...
by Greg Beben | Nov 8, 2025 | Meditations
Today’s readings, chosen in honor of the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, underscore the reality of Jesus’ love for each of us and his call that we too are to love. The Gospel today is the well-known account of Jesus “cleansing the temple.” It is the...
by Greg Beben | Nov 1, 2025 | Meditations
Having honored yesterday the saints who are already in heavenly glory, today we pray for the souls of those who have died but do not yet experience the glory of God. Yesterday we read from the Beatitudes that those who “will see God” are “the clean of heart.” We know,...
by Greg Beben | Oct 31, 2025 | Meditations
Last Sunday we pondered how the prayer of the poor in spirit pierces the clouds and finds a welcome in the heart of God, who sends the poor home justified. Today, the Church in Heaven and on earth rejoices in the Lord as we celebrate a feast day in honor of all those...
