ponderings on life and faith
Here is where I have posted some of the homilies and reflections given over the years. Some also have an audio track …… I hope you find them helpful. Enjoy!
Reflection for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Hello. My name is Gary. I am not God. I am just a servant of God. A broken and wounded person in need of healing. But that’s OK And that’s enough. Like you, my faith is at times challenged. You and I go through times of joy, […]
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Luke 7:36One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood […]
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you Those were Jesus’ words to apostles in today’s Gospel . The words you hear at the Eucharist each Sunday. And the last word you hear in the liturgy of the Mass – Go in Peace It’s what most of us seek desperately in our […]
What gifts do YOU bring to Jesus? Gospel reading today is found only in Matthew’s gospel. In fact, we are not sure how many Magi there were … but because there were 3 gifts, tradition has been three magi. What we do know is that they were powerful politically, literally “king-makers”, and used astrology and […]
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B Mark 13:24-32 ‘But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see “the Son of Man coming in clouds” […]
5th Sunday in Ordinary time (B)Mark 1: 29-39 And immediately he left the synagogue, and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and […]
But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he journeyed he approached Damascus, […]
