Reflection

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    May we be profoundly shaken

    For the past couple of weeks I have taken up Pope Francis?s recent encouragement that we read his encyclical Laudato Si. I?m ashamed to say that I?d never read it before, but I decided that now is as good a time as any…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    Is this a divine punishment?

    I think it?s completely natural for believers to look at this pandemic and the profound suffering it is causing and ask themselves ?why?? The Catechism calls the experience of suffering and evil a ?scandal? before going on to say, ?If…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    At every time and in every place

    Millions of Catholics around the world are now facing the reality that they won?t be able to attend any Holy Week liturgies or receive Communion on Easter Sunday. The Triduum is one of my favorite times of the year. I…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    ?I am with you always?

    When I hear the words ?Apostolic Penitentiary,? I don?t usually think about the maternal love of the Church (actually, I had to go to Wikipedia to look up exactly what this tribunal does when I first heard of it). However, when I…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    Who we know God is

    Recently I?ve been struck by a verse in chapter seventeen of John?s Gospel. Jesus is with his apostles during the last supper, offering a long prayer, and at one point he says to his Heavenly Father, ?Now this is eternal…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    Be Perfect

    The gospel reading today ends with Jesus summing up his great Sermon on the Mount by saying, ?So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.? We can easily misunderstand what this passage means and leave feeling like Jesus is placing…

  • Reflection,  Where Peter Is

    A Vulnerable God

    ?Lord Jesus Christ, through your Incarnation you accepted a human nature and lived a real, human life. Setting aside the glory of your divinity, you met us face to face in the vulnerability of our humanity.? This is the beginning…