Writings for the Journey

When we carefully watch the growth of flowers and vegetables, we know that this process does not happen in “an instant”, as we expect with much of our lives, such as seconds in the microwave. It begins with a seed that needs to break open and venture into a new world....

In celebrating Our Lord’s resurrection, we gain the assurance ever more and more, thatlife will go on after death. Our hearts will lead us to that love which will last forever.That life begins now if we would only let it blossom in our lives. What it requires is tolet...

As we age, they say we get set in our ways. We have developed a routine that hasworked for us, and through habit has become very easy to accomplish what needs tobe done. We can imagine how upsetting Jesus would have sounded to the Jews of hisday, when the observance...

Karl Rahner, the famous theologian of Vatican II, said in words to this effect that in thefuture century unless a person becomes a mystic having a personal experience of God,it will be very difficult for him or her to rely only on theological terminology to keep...

Sometimes we feel that evangelization is simply about feeding a person who has givenup on religion, with truths after truths and truths about our Catholic faith. While thatmight work with a certain personality type, many people will be turned off.Disembodied truths...

We celebrate this most sacred time bathed in the reality that Christ is alive. But thetimely question is “Are we alive?” Has Christ risen within us, so that we can be a truewitness to his resurrection?What does it mean to be alive in Christ? Maybe it is the inner...

We have seen what an earthquake can do with the upending of many structures in Turkeyand Syria.According to Richard Rohr, God feels like an earthquake at times, in that our encounter withGod can shake the ground under our feet and cause us to give up what we thought...

We would like to think that eventually we will have things under control, that throughreasonable planning we can achieve our goals. Applying this principle to our spiritual life,if we take one virtue at a time and work on it, eventually over the years we will arrive...

How do we make decisions about the conduct of someone? Is it possible to jump toconclusions with only seeing the “tip of the iceberg”, not being aware of all the aspects?Jesus says in a parable that the wheat and the weeds should grow up together so thatwhat is good...

The title of our reflections has been “Holy Cross Roads.” What does the phrase mean to you? For meit has reference to our Holy Cross family. We are on this journey together. These reflections aremeant to help us negotiate the twists and turns we have in life, going...