Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent We are already beginning the second week of Advent! This beautiful Advent season seems to rush upon us right after Thanksgiving, and we hardly have time to allow our quiet to overtake our hurry as we
JMJV Reflection for the First Sunday of Advent My Dear Good People, Beginning today, the First Sunday of Advent, 2021, let us consider Our Lady and St. Joseph as they journey through the wondrous Christmas story that we have heard since
Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul My Dear Good People, Recently I spent two hours watching the marriage of Crown Prince Frederik and Mary Elizabeth Donaldson of Australia which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004. The pomp and circumstance was breathtaking.
JMJV Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul As we open the Gospel Book for today to Mark 10:46-52, we are introduced to a man who is blind, begging at the side of the road. When he hears that Jesus is passing by,
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel (Mark 10:35-45) we find the apostles in a very human situation: two of them are asking Jesus for special treatment: “May we sit at your right
JMJV Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel we hear the story of a conversation between Jesus and the ‘Rich Young Man’ (Mark 10:17-30). This is not a parable: it really happened, a moment of encounter that
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, It’s the first recess of the first day of school for two first graders (in the days before kindergarten), and two little girls come running to me in the school
JMJV Divine Dialogue of God with the Soul My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel, Mark 9:38-48, Jesus is speaking to all of us on more than one subject. Let us consider for a few moments the more thought-provoking part of this Gospel passage.
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, Children are wonderful. Sometimes I think they’ve been recycled: they are so smart at such a young age that they must have been here before. This week I was
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, In today’s Gospel (Mark 8:27-35), Jesus says to those who were listening to Him, Whoever wishes to come after Me must deny himself, take up His cross and follow Me.
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time My Dear Good People, Today the Gospel brings us, through Mark 7:31-37, into the area of the Lake of Galilee. Jesus has come to preach, and a man is brought into his presence who can
JMJV Reflection for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time When I was a sophomore in high school there was a small group of us students who were discerning a vocation to the Religious Life. We lived together in a small house on the Motherhouse
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