by Greg Beben | Mar 5, 2019 | Meditations
“We arrive at Lent as humbled sinners,” as Fr. Francis reminds us in the Seasonal Introduction to Lent. We are grateful for the opportunity for spiritual renewal that Lent offers every year because every year we need to be stripped of the worldliness and the sin to...
by Greg Beben | Mar 2, 2019 | 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 9, 2019 | 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...
by Greg Beben | Feb 2, 2019 | Meditations
The call of a prophet comes purely from God’s free initiative. For his own purposes and glory, God calls and commissions. This is what he tells the prophet Jeremiah in today’s first reading: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated...
by Greg Beben | Jan 26, 2019 | Meditations
Today we repeat the heartwarming refrain of the Responsorial Psalm, “Your words, Lord, are Spirt and life.” In today’s liturgy, therefore, the Church invites us to ponder the meaning and importance of the Word of God for our lives. We take time to encounter the Word,...
by Greg Beben | Jan 19, 2019 | Meditations
Today the readings speak of the goodness of God being shown and proclaimed, and of great deeds which reveal his glory. It is an act of love to tell others of God and to direct them to his care. St. Thomas Aquinas has a simple definition of love: “Willing the good of...
