Reflections
Reflection for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 5, 2020
by Linda Fitzgerald, Notre Dame Associate
Reading I Zechariah 9:9-10: The shouts celebrate the coming savior who will remove the reason for war, injustice.
Reading II Romans 8:9, 11-13: Those who live according to the flesh…their thoughts are earthbound, narrow and shabby; their life a vain shadow of what it…
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Reflection for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time…June 21, 2020
By Sr Mary Ann Zimmer ND
Jeremiah 20: 10-13 ~ Letter of Paul to the Romans 5:12-15 ~ Matthew 10: 26-33
Jeremiah: “To you Lord, I have entrusted my cause.”
Paul: “But the gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one [Adam] the many died,…
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Reflection for The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ… June 14, 2020
By Sr Joy Connealy, ND
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord; Whoever eats this bread will live forever.”There are so many hungers in our world today and in our own hearts. We hunger for unity, equality, safety, justice and well-being for all. …
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Reflection for Trinity Sunday… June 7, 2020
By Sr Anita Rolenc ND
Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 2 Cor. 13:11-13 John 3:16-18
Sunday’s feast reminds me of my home parish church of Holy Trinity in Brainard, Nebraska. Above the main altar in the church was a huge statue of God the Father, holding the crucifix of Jesus between His…
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Reflection for The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ…June 14, 2020
By Sr Marie Alice Ostry, ND
This year our Lent and Easter Seasons have been as no other in our memory. In my reflection throughout these seasons I have been able to “experience” the Gospels and “imagine” a little more clearly how the apostles must have perceived these same…
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Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
5/22/2020
by Cathy & Gary Leak
Readings: Acts 1: 12-14 Ps 27: 1,4,7-8 1 Pt: 4:13-16 Jn 17: 1-11
Today’s readings have four related themes of prayer, trusting in God, suffering, and glorifying God. In the first reading, the Apostles are gathered in the upper…
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Sunday, May 17, Sixth Sunday of Easter
By Rita Melgares, Notre Dame Associate
In John’s Gospel, Jesus tells his Disciples, “If you love me, obey me; and I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to be with you always.”
He is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who leads into all truth. He…
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Reflection for Mother’s Day, May 10, 2020
By Mary Bartek, Notre Dame Associate
Mother’s Day 2020! How many times during this pandemic have I heard my mother’s voice echo in the back of my mind? “You just came in from outside. Wash your hands!” “Wash your hands after you go to the bathroom.” “If you are…
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Reflection Fourth Sunday of Easter… May 3, 2020
by Sr. Margaret Proskovec, ND
“I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” [Jn. 10:10]
This Sunday’s first reading from Acts holds a question that reverberates all over the earth in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. “What are we to do?” [Acts 2:37] Many are weary of isolation…
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Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter… April 26, 2020
By Judith Moe, Notre Dame Associate
The Gospel of Luke 24: 13-31
In Paraphrase:
On the third day, there were two who went to the town of Emmaus. Jesus went with them, yet they did not know him. Jesus asked why they were sad. They said to him, “Are you a…