Gospel Reflections for November 20 2016: CHRIST THE KING Get me the Manager! You might hear that more 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 greatly impressed how quickly that wise […]

Gospel Reflections for November 13th 2016 These are interesting times! We are just a few days after our national election, the first weekend with our new Church floor, and two weeks until the Season of Advent, but the readings focus on the end of time itself! The Gospel lists frightening events that signal the end […]

Gospel Reflections for November 6th 2016 Who takes care of the family? 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 […]

Gospel Reflections for October 30 2016 Trick or Treat? Zacchaeus is the Jewish Tax Collector for the Romans …and despised by everyone. The Romans did not actually pay salaries to Jews like Zacchaeus who collected taxes. He simply made a living by over-charging his fellow Jews and then keeping the difference. Of course, tax collectors […]

Gospel Reflections for October 23 2016 That first look in the mirror You get up in the morning, and not too long after that you see your face in the bathroom mirror. What is that like? You are without your work clothes, or makeup, or even very awake. Like most of us, that is all […]