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 | May 23, 2020 | Meditations
“And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.” These words of Jesus, taken from his prayer to the Father at the Last Supper, bring back to mind the great event we celebrated last Thursday, Jesus’ Ascension to the...
by Greg Beben | May 16, 2020 | Meditations
At the Last Supper, Jesus spoke to his disciples so openly about his imminent sufferings that they were deeply disturbed. Thus one of his concerns on that holy night was to console them and strengthen their faith. As we read last Sunday, he told them, “Do not let your...
by Greg Beben | May 9, 2020 | Meditations
Change is one of the characteristics of living things. If something is alive, every day it experiences a visible or invisible transformation. This is also true of the Church, which is always growing – not changing into something different but becoming more fully...
