Reflections
Reflection for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 28, 2024
by Sr. Margaret Hickey, ND
Deuteronomy 18: 15-20; Psalm 95;
First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians, 7:32-34; Mark 1:21-28
Paul says in this Sunday’s second reading: “I should like you to be free of anxieties.” Then the first reading, the psalm and the gospel call us to be quiet and…
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Reflection for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 21, 2024
by Cindy Wenninghoff, Notre Dame Associate
This Sunday’s readings are familiar to us all – a call to repent and believe. To listen to God and to prepare ourselves for Christ’s coming. It is an assurance that we are all called to be saved.
In the first reading it is…
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Reflection for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time…Jan 14, 2024
by Associate Phyllis Chandler
“Speak, for your servant is listening.” – I Samuel:10
Our Scripture readings for this Sunday focus on God’s call, first in the book of Samuel and then in the gospel of John as Jesus invites Peter and the first disciples to follow him.
Samuel repeatedly hears…
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Reflection for the Feast of the Epiphany, January 7, 2024
by Sr Celeste Wobeter ND
Epiphany – a manifestation!
This weekend we celebrate the manifestation of Jesus to the Maji, not to the Jews, but to seekers from the East! Jesus came not for just one group of people. Jesus is all-inclusive! He came for all! No exceptions! For the…
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REFLECTION FOR THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT…DECEMBER 24, 2023
by Sr. Mary Ann Zimmer, ND
First Reading: Second Book of Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 89: 2-3, 4-5, 27, 29
Second Reading: Romans 16;25-27
Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
This year the fourth week of Advent is barely a breath long! Christmas Eve is already upon us. Mary gets pregnant in…
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Reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent…December 17, 2023
by Carol Craven, Notre Dame Associate
Reading 1 Isaiah 61:1-2, 10-11
Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54
Reading 2: First Thessalonians 5: 16-24
Gospel, John1:6-8, 19-28
Today’s readings are about being sent. John says, “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert “make straight the way of the Lord.”’
He lets…
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Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent…December 10, 2023
by Barbara Hickey, Notre Dame Associate
Today is the Second Sunday in Advent, a time to rejoice, to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
A second purple candle (which is sometimes called the Bethlehem candle) is lit on the second Sunday of Advent to represent the hope of Christ coming to the…
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Reflection for the First Week of Advent, Dec 3, 2023
by Sr Theresa Maly ND
I invite us to reflect on the mystery and wonder of relationship. In his book of Advent Meditations, Carroll Stuhmueller, C.P. writes, “The reality is, God has become Incarnate in our midst, not so much in this or in that, but in the relationship between…
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Reflection for Christ the King Sunday…Nov 26, 2023
by Theresa Homan, Notre Dame Associate
Any good animal breeder knows to keep the sleek and the strong of the herd and to cull out the weak and the lame. So why does this God, who we claim to want to follow, do it backwards?
In the New American Bible,…
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Reflection for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time…Nov. 19, 2023
by Kathy Schinker, Notre Dame Associate
A new sense of purpose is tugging at my inner self to look at myself more deeply into the coming season—first, in thanksgiving for the blessings of this past year—as well as for all the trials that were met there as well.
What an excellent opportunity to seek out…