by Greg Beben | Jul 3, 2021 | Meditations
Our Theme for this week tells us that “we have received the mission of bearing the word of the Lord to others.” But we can only bring to others what we have first received ourselves. This is why the Theme exhorts us to open our hearts to God’s powerful grace working...
by Greg Beben | Jun 26, 2021 | Meditations
Death. Who wants even to think about it? And yet we must. We would like to avoid it, but we cannot. Even if we might live for a while as if it does not exist, or as if “it will never happen to me,” eventually, we must all face death. It is an inescapable fact of human...
by Greg Beben | Jun 19, 2021 | Meditations
Our Gospel today is one of three “boat scenes” that can be found in the first half of Mark (cf. 6:45-52 and 8:13-21). The evangelist uses the experience of being in a boat to teach us something about the journey of faith and Christian discipleship. A small boat on a...
by Greg Beben | Jun 12, 2021 | Meditations
In the Garden of Eden, when the snake tempted Eve, he told her that, if she and the man ate the forbidden fruit, they would be “like gods” (Gn 3:5). This must have sounded very desirable to her, because we know that she then did take the fruit and eat it, as did the...
by Greg Beben | May 24, 2021 | Seasonal Introductions
The Easter Season concludes with Pentecost Sunday. From the upper room, the Church goes forth empowered by the Spirit to proclaim the life she has within her. Now we enter the period of Ordinary Time, which concludes on Saturday following the feast of Christ the King....
