Reflections
Reflection for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 21, 2022
By Rita Melgares, Notre Dame Associate
Luke 13 13:22-30
Competition: we all want to win; some, of course, will lose.
VICTORY-DEFEAT
JOY-PAIN
BIRTH-DEATH
LIFE IS ALL OF THESE.
Jesus knew joy…and tears…He knew birth…and life…and death.
After the Crucifixion, Jesus rose from the dead! That’s what His life was all about.
Throughout Luke’s account of Christ’s life, as…
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Reflection for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary time…August 14, 2022
By Sr Mary Hlas ND
Today’s Gospel, initially, can be very confusing. Luke begins this Gospel with Jesus telling His disciples, “I have come to set the world on fire and how I wish it were already blazing.”
We see, on television, many parts of the world where huge fires…
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Reflection for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time – August 7, 2022
By Rod and Connie Determan, Notre Dame Associates
Just as in the Second Reading Hebrews 11:16 “But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one.” my desires were to see where God could fill my life and look for a better homeland. There isn’t a GPS or a…
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Reflection for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary time…July 24, 2022
By Kathryn Schinker, Notre Dame Associate
Planning and “God Willing”
Planning is an integral part of our lives, day in and day out. From the moment we awake to lying in bed at night to review plans for tomorrow.
I was reminded of an old joke about “when I make plans,…
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Reflection For The 17th Sunday Of Ordinary Time – July 24, 2022
By Sr Joan Polak, ND
PRAYER
I imagine we all pray sometime. What is your way of prayer? Is it asking for something, thanking for something, bargaining with God, or is it just talking to God?
Again, I ask: What is your way of prayer? Persistent begging? Bargaining with God? Thanksgiving…
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Reflection for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 17, 2022
By Cindy Wenninghoff, Notre Dame Associate
In our gospel reading for Sunday, we have Martha busy preparing a meal and making her visitors comfortable, not unlike Abraham and Sarah in our first reading who reach out to three strangers– and not unlike the Good Samaritan in last Sunday’s reading…
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Reflection for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 10, 2022
By Barbara Hickey, Notre Dame Associate
Luke 10:25-37
Jesus’ first and most important commandment is to love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself. We love family members and friends of course, but Jesus wants us to love people we don’t know, people who don’t want…
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Reflection for the 13th Week in Ordinary Time – July 3, 2022
By Judith Moe McCallum, Notre Dame Associate
RESPONSORIAL PSALM 66
Response: Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
3 Say to God, “How awesome you are!”
4 All earth bows down before you and sings to thee.
6 Come and see the marvels of God, His awesome deeds for us.
16…
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Reflection for 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 26, 2022
By Kris Lanik, Notre Dame Associate
Today’s readings take us back to the basics. We are encouraged to honestly examine our deepest priorities in life.
The reading from the Gospel of Luke tells us of the internal struggles of two potential disciples. Both were speaking with Jesus. Jesus invites them…
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Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ… June 19, 2022
By Sr. Joy Connealy ND
St. Augustine said, “become what you receive” and St. Paul in 1 Corinthians said, “now you are Christ’s Body and individually a part of it.” The feast of the Body and Blood of Christ reminds us that we are to be the living presence…