Spiritual Directions for the Journey
Posted in This Sunday on May 14th, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all things Catholic. Fr. Barron has a full library [...]
Posted in This Sunday on May 7th, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all things Catholic. Fr. Barron has a full library [...]
Posted in This Sunday on Apr 30th, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all things Catholic. Fr. Barron has a full library [...]
Posted in This Sunday on Apr 23rd, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all things Catholic. Fr. Barron has a full library [...]
Posted in This Sunday on Apr 16th, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all things Catholic. Fr. Barron has a full library [...]
Posted in This Sunday on Apr 9th, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all things Catholic. Fr. Barron has a full library [...]
Posted in This Sunday on Apr 2nd, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Readings: (Acts 5:12-16; Psalm 118;Revelation 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19;John 20:19-31) Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all [...]
Posted in Big Questions, Reflections from the Pulpit - Wandering with Deacon Mike on Apr 1st, 2013
Please click here for Kelley Mooney’s spiritual lyrical adaptation of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Please Click here for a Printer Friendly copy of the Homily. Please click here for the original version of Jeremy’s Easter Egg. Jeremy is one of my favorite theologians. He was a young man who had been born into a twisted and [...]
Posted in This Sunday on Mar 12th, 2013
This Sunday’s Readings This weeks readings from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which uses the New American Bible. Readings: (Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11) Click here for THIS SUNDAY’S readings The Word on Fire The Word On Fire – Fr. Robert Barron’s internet site offers many interesting insights into all [...]
Posted in Henri Nouwen, This Sunday on Mar 10th, 2013
We are called to be as compassionate as God is compassionate. We are called to follow Jesus’ example as a son – “the younger son without being rebellious” and “the elder son without being resentful.” We are also called to grow into spiritual fatherhood – this means both father and mother, masculine and feminine. All [...]
Posted in Henri Nouwen, This Sunday on Mar 10th, 2013
Nouwen says the painting just as easily could have been called “The Welcome by the Compassionate Father.” In the painting, the father’s hands are the true central point. The light and the eyes of others focus on those hands. The left hand is masculine while the right hand is more feminine. So the character “is [...]
Posted in Henri Nouwen, This Sunday on Mar 10th, 2013
The elder son usually gets little attention in discussions of this Bible story. Yet, Nouwen explains how both Rembrandt and Henri himself had part of the dark, resentful side of the “elder son” in them. Henri admits he understands the envy that the elder son feels toward his younger brother. The elder son lived an [...]
Posted in Henri Nouwen, This Sunday on Mar 10th, 2013
Henri writes about the most famous person in the story: the younger son, the prodigal son. He says Rembrandt at a young age “had all the characteristics of the prodigal son: brash, self confident, spendthrift, sensual, and very arrogant”. The artist earned a lot, spent a lot, and lost a lot. The painting is about [...]
Posted in Henri Nouwen, Reflections from Fellow Wanderers on Mar 9th, 2013
The book, “Return of the Prodigal Son”, is based on Nouwen’s reflections on a Rembrandt painting called Prodigal Son, which hangs in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Prologue and Introduction tell of Henri’s encounter with the painting itself in 1986 and his move to the L’Arche Daybreak community in the town of Richmond [...]
Posted in Henri Nouwen, Reflections from Fellow Wanderers on Mar 9th, 2013
Some of my friends at St. Patrick’s may have noticed that I was scheduled to preach this weekend. As they (whoever they are) like to say nothing makes God smile more than people making plans. It turns out that this weekend is ShareLife Sunday, the annual appeal for folks to give to various Catholic Charities. [...]
