Homeless Catholic Reflections
Weekly reflections for July 8, 2025
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Ron Bruni: Wrestling with God
John Pearring: The root of our disagreements
Older Reflections:
Steve Hall: Scripture’s elusive superlatives
Steve Leininger: So, be perfect
Lou Occhi: The sweet word of God
Tim Trainor: Called to be salt and light
Norm McGraw: Source of our freedom
Steve Hessman: Convinced or Convicted?
Danny Keuhlen: The night I was God’s Co-pilot
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Margit McCarthy: Temptation Trials in the Garden
Two new reflections from Ron Bruni & John Pearring
Inspired by Mass readings from Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Wrestling with God
From struggle to compassion
By Ron Bruni
Click here to read Ron Bruni's reflection from July 8, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
The unifying theme in today’s passages is desperate dependence on God that leads to transformation, blessing, and a call to compassionate action. Each text features individuals or communities in crises wrestling with their limitations and needs and encountering God's presence, often through struggle, prayer, or compassion. These encounters lead to a deeper reliance on God and a changed life, which overflows into mission and service to others.
Ron Bruni's reflections: “The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you and figures of speech, but I will tell you clearly about the Father.” (John 16:25)
Is love at the root of our disagreements?
'His heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned'
Click here to read John Pearring's reflection from July 8, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
There is little alignment on worldviews or ideologies (whichever word works better for you). As long as we hoist flags to corner the exclusive support from God without actually having God’s full-fledged support, we’re waving at windmills. Worse, when we do behave appropriately under the sovereignty of God, there will be those who object to a creator who agrees with us.
John Pearring's reflections: He said to them, “Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest." (Luke 10:2)
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