Today’s readings speak of God’s infinite mercy across all peoples. Scott Hahn has contributed a wonderful reflection that helps to connect what seemed at least to me to be a hard-to-understand set of readings, not only relating them to one another but also to the greater scope of Biblical history.
Scott Hahn, founder and president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
John Martens wrote a beautiful article on this past weekend’s readings, particularly emphasizing the role of suffering in our world. We must admit that almost everyone has suffered, the only thing that varies is the degree of suffering you have experienced. How do we reconcile the suffering we experience, both within ourselves and in those around us (our peers and those we know are suffering around the world), with a loving, peaceful God? This past Sunday’s readings shed light on this very question. 
The video above is the song Fr. Pat was referring to in his homily today. :)
Don’t forget: HH (Humble and Honest), GT (Generous and Thankful), and CL (Compassionate Listening)!
Let all these words, ideas, and thoughts follow you this week. Think as God does, not as human beings do, because that is following the example of Jesus.
Mother Theresa’s Daily Prayer seems a fitting conclusion:
EAR JESUS, help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Thy spirit and love. Penetrate and possess my whole
being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Thy presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus. Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.
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Today I went to St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Columbia, SC for the noon Mass. I wasn’t aware until we stepped into the church that is was primer domingo and thus was a Spanish Mass. Read the rest of this entry »
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