Homeless Catholic want to be at home in our faith. We fail at that goal, but God does not. We can grow a little less homeless every day, and be better prepared to walk fully into the Kingdom.

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Giddy with joy

Norm McGraw - At the Easter Mass in my parish about two weeks ago, the priest was overcome with excitement in his sermon. Several times, he led us in chanting “

2 / 10

Not judged by our religion

Lou Occhi - Above all, our goal is to love and honor our Creator above all else and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

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No one had risen from the dead before

Steve Hall - What’s going on? The disciples did not have faith in the unknown. The authorities did not have faith in a known.

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It's not us who finds God

John Pearring - It takes time and miraculous encounters. We never controlled our past, present, and future. Our every positive step has been inspired.

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The Church is at the Lord’s tomb

Tim Trainor - The authors of the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed refer to this day as "The Harrowing of Hell," when Christ descended into Hell.

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The Gospel in 12 Verses

Steve Leininger - If you were limited to twelve short excerpts from the 4 gospels to tell the story of Jesus, what would YOUR list look like?

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A major shift for Jesus, for us

John Pearring - “From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM.”

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In fear, we plan our tomorrows

Steve Hall - Repeatedly, they wer told in Scriptures, “Do not be afraid.” It was a line they would ignore as the various troubles of the times unfolded.

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Dan is gone — Long live Dan

John Pearring - What we do silently, especially where the average age makes us regular visitors to death’s door, is never say aloud what we agree to.

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What's in a name?

Ron Bruni - Through adversity, we learn submission, humility, and dependence on God. Emerging from difficulties, we gain faith, greater, and character.

All reflections from 2023

Plus those that date back to 2015

John Pearring's collection of Reflections

Steve Hall's collection of Reflections

Reflections for Steve Leininger, Lou Occhi, Tim Trainor, Norm McGraw, and Ron Bruni

Other Recent Reflections

Norm McGraw - God knows our weaknesses - God knows how weak we humans can be. That’s why He continually prods us to be good.

John Pearring - We vacuum instead of listen - We straighten up the world to escape from dealing with humanity, which we think is just a godless bunch of losers. We vacuum. We watch TV.

Lou Occhi - We have to become lights in the darkness that currently exists. We rejoice in the love of our God and spread that love in whatever our Lord wants.

Steve Hall - Kept things, dragged through life - Many things are kept because they once seemed important; with the passing of time their value diminishes and they end up in the dustbin.

John Pearring - Witness and be Jesus' close friend - The way to become one of Jesus’ close friends is to let his Holy Spirit lead us to witness. Elijah allowed that to happen. Moses did too.

Persistence is an important element of our faith - Tim Trainor - Do we desire the kind of faith that leads us to persist, as 2 Timothy suggests, whether it is convenient or inconvenient?

Hear, O Israel! God is the Lord. God is one! - Steve Hall - Why did God empower him so greatly? It is found in the Shema, the essential prayer of faith of all Judaism.

Jesus liked recruiting siblings - John Pearring - We begin with blood brothers and sisters, or those from a spiritual brotherhood. Soon, there is no difference. We end up in kinship with Jesus.

Angels allow what God allows - John Pearring - Angels aren’t afraid of demons. Leaving demons to do their dirty deeds, then, is something angels have to do.

Will we ever learn? - Steve Hall - Has humanity progressed at all? Have we simply become more sophisticated in the ills and evils we continue to perpetrate?

Angels go where God is - John Pearring - God's Trinitarian persons are one thing (pun intended), but asking his followers to ingest his DNA to transform us is almost incomprehensible.

Assigned seats at Jesus' Feast? - Steve Hall -It is well known, however, that a claim of importance is not always evidenced in the life of one making that claim.

God in himself - Norm McGraw - When we accept God in our lives, we accept the mystery of the Trinity as “the mystery of God in himself.”

Be faithful for the Church - John Pearring - Love is the way to measure fruitful relationships in the Church against petty manipulation and power plays.

Wealth & fame while the clock is ticking - Steve Hall - The incidentals of life — abundance and deprivation, pleasure and pain, wealth and poverty — are just that, incidentals and of little account.

Angels go where God is - John Pearring - Jesus taught we would be tempted to drop our cross, give up on those we are meant to serve. Watch out for those things that take us off course.

We have one Father - Tim Trainor - We know that the Son of God never contradicts himself.

Once upon a time . . . John Pearring - From entertainment venues for escape. From comedy pitches and jokes for relief. We exchange gossip as story-telling. Stories form us.

Reason over scripture & tradition? - Steve Hall - The mind and its “good sense”—that is to say, human reason—are the only basis for judging whether a thing is true. Really?

Hand written, 1st Century theology - John Pearring - In one sentence penned by St. Paul, we see the theology of heaven and Jesus' reign.

God measures stuff - John Pearring - Some of us are bothered by God measuring out gifts, blessings, and even faith, as Romans reported. We Americans have a distaste for measures.

Names written in heaven - Steve Hall - “Do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you,”Jesus says, “but rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

From chants to missionaries - Norm McGraw - Reflecting on Saint Gregory’s accomplishments in spreading the gospel and Saint Paul’s message to his fellow Christians. 9/3/22

Steve Leininger - My “October Surprise” this year was a letter from Colorado state saying I owe them enough additional money to get my attention.

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