Reflections

Reflection for Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

illustration representing palm sunday

by Kris Lanik, Notre Dame Associate

The Gospel reading begins with the Easter experience of Mary Magdalene.  In spite of the trauma of having witnessed the crucifixion of the Lord whom she loved so much, she didn’t focus on herself.  She didn’t focus on her own sense of loss. …

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Reflection for Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

by Dot Connealy, Notre Dame Associate

Matthew 21:1-11; Isaiah 50;4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Matthew 26:14-27:66 or 27:11-54

This will be a Palm Sunday like no other for most of us. Today we should be attending mass and hearing the Passion read for the first time during Holy Week, processions in many…

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Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

by Cindy Wenninghoff, Notre Dame Associate
The 5th Sunday of Lent is moving us ever closer to the Passion and this week’s readings are preparing us.  From the Old Testament where God promises to raise his people up from the grave and give us his spirit, to the New…

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Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

The story of the healed blind man reminds us of the need to check our assumptions. It reminds us to accept the fact that we can be wrong about the things that we have always believed to be true. Jesus’ disciples, the parents of the man born…

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Reflection of the Third Sunday of Lent

by Sr Theresa Maly ND
The Samaritan woman we read about this weekend is a truly fascinating story. An ordinary trip to a well turned out to be anything but ordinary. First of all, it was strange to find a Jewish man, we know as Jesus, sitting there alone….

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Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent

by Kathryn Schinker, Notre Dame Associate

We entered Lent earlier this week and today’s readings provide a framework and a challenge for me as I ponder the focus of my journey these 40 days.

The gospel acclamation says one does not live on bread alone, but on every…

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Reflection for the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by Cathy & Gary Leak

The readings today are compared to good fruit from good trees, meaning that if we follow God’s ways with our whole heart, we are the good fruit. We need to question our own motives. Are we acting and speaking for our own benefit and…

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Reflection for 1st Sunday of Lent

by Theresa Homan, Notre Dame Associate
Two temptation stories and two different responses to temptation. We’ve heard them both many times. And we’ve heard how we are saved from Adam and Eve’s disobedience by Jesus’ obedience. So here we are at the start of another Lenten season, reminded again…

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Daily reflections for the first week of Lent

Ash Wednesday
Gospel: Mt:6:1-6, 16-18
In today’s Gospel, there are many ways that God wants us to live. We give without acknowledgement; we pray in silence; we fast as Jesus did in the desert. What more can we do this Lent to be more Jesus-like?​

~Associate Barb Hickey
First Thursday of Lent
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Reflection for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

The reflections I offer come out of my having watched Dr. Maya Angelou on PBS this past week, having meditated on several of her famous quotes I found online, and having taught black and brown children these past two weeks. Her son, Guy Johnson, said in an interview,…

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