Juan Point at a Time

Sometimes people choose, consciously and unconsciously, to turn off the light of their conscience. Today's scripture story is an example of what can happen when people choose to do so. 

Year 2 - Lent - Week 05 - Monday

The story of the Prodigal Son is often told with an emphasis upon his repentance and God's love, but there is another nearly invisible character who models what is possible from the very beginning.

Year C - Lent - Week 4

Though tradition and teaching can help us come to know a lot about God, he ultimately just wants us to know him. Today's Gospel points us back towards relationship with God; something we can encounter when we enter into interior silence.

Lent - Week 2 - Sunday

Christ always models for us that with which he also helps us. In the readings for the first Sunday of Lent, that's moments when we walk through wilderness in our lives.

First Sunday of Lent

When challenges come for faith or life and they seem insurmountable, the best thing to do may be to love them even though it seems like exactly the opposite of what we want to do. 

Year 2 - Ordinary Time - Week 6 - Wednesday 

Jesus shocks his disciples with the beatitudes today. They are not an appealing list, yet they can wake us up to poison we might be drinking without realizing it.

Year C - Ordinary Time - Week 6 

Saint Josephine Bakhita walked through the valley of the shadow of death and had plenty of cause to fear evil, but she somehow lived with a grace that is beyond telling.

Ferial of Saint Josephine Bakhita

The blessing read at the end of this homily comes from the reflection guide to Kate Bowler's Good Enough Lent which can be found here.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a devotion that emphasizes the God's loving mercy for us. This homily speaks to how we can learn to love ourselves and others more like Christ.

The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Jesus today raises two difficult moments from the institutional history of the Israelites. As similar as our own responses can be at times, he is opening a space to begin reconciling with the past in the present.

Year C - Ordinary Time - Week 4

Unbeknown to nearly all, Jesus quietly performs a miracle at the Wedding at Cana. He can do the same with the water in our lives when our trust is fully in Him.

Year C - Ordinary Time - Week 2