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....
by Greg Beben | Jan 14, 2022 | Meditations
The Feast of the Santo Niño was established to honor Jesus Christ. The Santo Niño is a sacred image which is connected with the very beginning of Christianity in the Philippines. The small statue now in Cebu, the Santo Niño de Cebu, arrived with Magellan and his crew,...
by Greg Beben | Jan 8, 2022 | Meditations
Our Gospel today, neatly presented in two paragraphs, describes for us two elements, one human and the other divine. The first sentence sets the scene: “The people were filled with expectation….” This brief statement conjures up for us a sense of the excitement that...
