Reflections
Remembering Sister Christine Elias, ND
Our beloved Sister Christine Elias passed away on April 20, 2020, at the age of 100.
Sr Christine’s 100 years of life cannot be summed up in a short post like this. Her spirit will be missed. We have all considered her “God’s cheerleader”, walking through the…
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Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter… April 19, 2020
By Sr Rosalee Burke ND
Creator God, You are trying us! It has been a long time since we have been able to attend Mass and receive you in the Eucharist. Television and radio Masses are helpful for us but not the same as being present.
There is a loneliness…
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Reflection for Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
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…