by Greg Beben | Feb 19, 2022 | Meditations
In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us what seems like an impossible instruction: “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” And, as Pope Francis tells us in the Spiritual...
by Greg Beben | Feb 12, 2022 | Meditations
Today, we reflect on a challenging and fundamental passage from Luke’s Gospel, Jesus’ teaching on the four beatitudes and the four woes. According to this passage, the blessed are the poor, the hungry, the weeping, and the hated, while the cursed are the rich, the...
by Greg Beben | Feb 5, 2022 | Meditations
In St. Luke’s account of Jesus’ early public ministry, the Lord quickly stirred up both admiration and opposition, as we have seen in the past two Sundays. After he was violently rejected by his neighbors in Nazareth, Jesus went to Capernaum and continued to perform...
by Greg Beben | Jan 29, 2022 | Meditations
The Gospel today picks up where we left off last Sunday. Jesus is in the synagogue of his native town of Nazareth, where he has read a passage from the scroll of Isaiah. After the reading, he sits down and makes an astounding claim: that this very passage, a prophecy...
by Greg Beben | Jan 22, 2022 | Meditations
On September 30, 2019, Pope Francis declared that the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time would be celebrated as the annual Sunday of the Word of God. As the mysterious ways of God have unfolded, we have found that during the very period since we began highlighting the Word...
by Greg Beben | Jan 15, 2022 | Meditations
Last Sunday, we celebrated the Baptism of the Lord, which inaugurated Jesus’ public ministry. Although the Christmas/Epiphany season officially ended with that feast, the Church continues to celebrate the many ways by which Jesus reveals himself in our midst each day....
