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...
by Greg Beben | May 2, 2020 | Meditations
A poor defenseless sheep left on its own does not have a chance of survival. Eventually its predators will find it and destroy it. Each one of us is a defenseless sheep when we are apart from God and all he offers us through his Son Jesus Christ. The message that runs...
by Greg Beben | Apr 25, 2020 | Meditations
The Resurrection of Christ is our faith and our hope. If Christ has not been raised, our faith is pointless (cf. 1 Cor 15:17). But Christ is risen; therefore our faith is meaningful, and we are a people of hope. There cannot be anything that gives more meaning and...
by Greg Beben | Apr 18, 2020 | Meditations
A blessed Feast of Divine Mercy to all! When St. John Paul II established for the universal Church the celebration of the 2nd Sunday of Easter as “Divine Mercy Sunday,” he fulfilled the request that Jesus Christ made in his appearances to St. Faustina Kowalska. The...
by Greg Beben | Feb 24, 2020 | Seasonal Introductions
The liturgy has brought us through Advent, Christmas, and Ordinary Time before Lent, always guiding us to a fuller life in Christ. As we pondered words of wisdom for the formation of our mind and heart, we were brought to experience the power of the real presence of...