Gospel Reflections for December 1 2019 Is this the right direction? I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. I also want to especially welcome all those who had the courage and strength to travel in this hectic holiday season! Welcome home! I hope your Thanksgiving Day was filled with great food, great football, and maybe […]

Gospel Reflections for Christ The King 2019 Get me the Manager! You might hear that now as the Christmas shopping season starts. Tensions can escalate in crowded stores and sometimes impatient customers want help from the boss. I once saw a customer angrily do this, but was greatly impressed how quickly a wise store manager diffused and […]

Gospel Reflections for November 17 2019 End of the world near?  The Gospel lists frightening events such as wars, earthquakes, and plagues. TV preachers often use this list to scare people, and candidates always predict disaster if the other person wins. However, wars, earthquakes, and plagues happen in every century …and have for thousands of […]

Gospel Reflections for November 10 2019 Family teamwork The succession of marriages in today’s Gospel might sound strange, but doing everything possible to take care of a family that suffered a loss was as essential in ancient days as it is now. No one ever wanted to see a man or woman, or especially children, […]

Gospel Reflections for November 3 2019 The Jesus Vision Zacchaeus is the Jewish Tax Collector for the Romans …and despised by everyone! Why is that? The Romans did not actually pay salaries to Jews like Zacchaeus who collected their taxes. He was expected to make a living by over-charging his fellow Jews and then keeping […]