Gospel Reflections for April 8 2018 Did Jesus really rise on Easter Sunday? In today’s Gospel, Thomas seems to doubt Jesus rose from the dead. After all, it is hard to believe anyone could do that. But resurrection is actually not his doubt. Thomas wants to know why, after rising from the dead, Jesus would […]

Gospel Reflections for April 1 2018 Jesus returns! Jesus experienced a horrible crucifixion on Good Friday. You see it on every crucifix. He was an innocent person guilty of no crime at all, and yet was terribly executed in a way that was profoundly humiliating and painful. Can you imagine the crowd when they found […]

Gospel Reflections for March 25 2018 Follow me! On this Palm Sunday we receive palms just as the people in the Gospel waved palms and sang songs to celebrate the arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem. However, we also hear the long Gospel story that recounts other events of that Holy Week. They recount the last […]

Gospel Reflections for March 11 2018 Why did this happen! When things do not turn out as planned and you’re deeply disappointed you might cry out, “Why did this happen! Whose fault is this?” The first reading recalls the sad story about six hundred years before Christ when the Israelite nation was conquered and sent […]