by Greg Beben | Mar 9, 2024 | Meditations
God so loved the world… These familiar words from today’s Gospel are actually a radical announcement about God and his relationship with us: He loves us! This is part of the joyful proclamation we ponder on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, also known as Laetare Sunday...
by Greg Beben | Mar 2, 2024 | Meditations
The Ten Commandments have been given a bad reputation in modern society. They are looked down on, as if they were the classic proof of how negative and repressive religion is. Self-confident non-believers ask: Who wants to listen to some ancient myth about a divine...
by Greg Beben | Feb 24, 2024 | Meditations
Either God is everything to us, and we give him everything, or we live as if he is just another detail to keep track of, while keeping our most precious things for ourselves. Part of the challenge of Lent is to put God once more at the very center of our lives, no...
by Greg Beben | Feb 17, 2024 | Meditations
In the Spiritual Reflection chosen for this week, Pope Francis, reflecting on today’s short Gospel from St. Mark, says that the Lenten journey we have just begun takes place in “the desert of solitude,” which is also a place of “battle.” This may seem to be a...
by Greg Beben | Feb 13, 2024 | Meditations
Today, as we begin the rich and holy Season of Lent, we submit ourselves to the discipline of Ash Wednesday. For the next Forty Days, we will prepare ourselves to enter more deeply into the Paschal Mystery, the Suffering, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus...
