Reflections
Reflection for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Nov. 14, 2021
By Ed McKibbin, Notre Dame Associate
November has always been one of my favorite months. However, I recognize that others have a very different opinion as the days grow shorter with the amount of sunlight decreasing, temperatures dropping, and the beautiful leaves gradually all fall away leaving the trees…
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Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Nov. 7, 2021
By Rod and Connie Determan, Notre Dame Associates
In the first reading from the Book of Kings, Elijah asked the woman gathering sticks to give all that she had, her last meal. Both Elijah and the woman knew she would not find more flour and there was nowhere that…
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Reflection for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time…October 31, 2021
By Theresa Homan, Notre Dame Associate
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and withall your strength.”
I’ve often struggled with what it means to love God. If love is an act of the will, not just a…
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Reflection for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 24, 2021
By Linda Fitzgerald, Notre Dame Associate
Mk 10:46-52 The story of Jesus healing the blind Bartimaeus who was begging by the roadside outside of the city of Jericho. One of the few persons named as healed.
In the days of Jesus, physical ailments could be seen as punishment from God. …
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Reflection for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 17, 2021
By Barbara Hickey, Notre Dame Associate
Mark 10:35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to Him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” They did this without including the other apostles and as you can imagine, that did…
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Reflection for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time…Oct. 10, 2021
By Dick Connealy, Notre Dame Associate
A reading from the Book of Wisdom 7:7-11; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30
Like many, I thought wisdom was about learning things outside myself. Wisdom is a gift from walking with God and letting him take you on the journey to who you really are.
Many…
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Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 3, 2021
By Theresa Wiggs, Notre Dame Associate
The readings for this Sunday touch on some very familiar relationships:
Husbands and Wives
Brothers and Sisters
and Children
We hear in Genesis the story of how God formed a partner for ‘man’ out of one of his own ribs! The man says, “This one is bone…
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Reflection for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Times – Sept. 26, 2021
By Rita Melgares, Notre Dame Associate
As a prelude to this Sunday’s Gospel Reflection, we recall that Jesus has begun His public life, Proclaiming the Kingdom.
Jesus and His disciples came to Capernaum. One day, John (one of Jesus’ disciples) told Him, “Teacher, we saw a man using Your…
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Reflection for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Sept. 19, 2021
By Judith McCallum Moe, Notre Dame Associate
In the Gospel, Mark relates to us that as Jesus traveled with his disciples, he attempted to tell them that the Son of Man would be turned over to those who would kill him, and in three days the Son of Man…
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Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sept. 12, 2021
By Sr Margaret Hickey ND
James 2:14-18: “What good is it my sisters and brothers, if people say they have faith but do not have works? Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
In this time which we are experiencing right now, this is a wonderful…