by Greg Beben | Aug 14, 2018 | Meditations
The readings for today’s glorious feast, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, offer us an opportunity to look back into salvation history to an earlier event in Mary’s life, the Visitation, to the “great sign in the sky” in the Book of Revelation, and to the...
by Greg Beben | Jun 16, 2018 | Meditations
“… and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.” Jesus uses the mysterious process by which a seed germinates and grows as an image of how the Kingdom of God grows. We live in the midst of many things, both natural and supernatural, that we...
by Greg Beben | Jun 9, 2018 | Meditations
We begin the tenth week of Ordinary Time by going back to the beginning, to the Book of Genesis, the first book in the Bible, and to the early days of man in creation. Previous to today’s passage, the serpent tempted Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, and she...
by Greg Beben | Apr 7, 2018 | Meditations
This Octave Day of Easter is, in the 21st century, also celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. The readings today show us examples of both acts of mercy and words of mercy. The first reading gives us an inspiring description of the early Church. Those who loved and...
by Greg Beben | Mar 31, 2018 | Meditations
He is Risen! Alleluia! There were soldiers standing guard outside the tomb where Jesus was buried, but there were no eyewitnesses to what happened in the darkness inside. So profound was the mystery of what exactly took place, the Resurrection of the Lord, that no one...
by Greg Beben | Mar 24, 2018 | Meditations
Holy Week, or Passion Week, ushers us into the very pinnacle of our Catholic faith. It gives us a new opportunity to immerse ourselves in the heart of the salvation story, and encounter the very essence of Jesus and his saving mission. It is an opportunity not to be...
