Homeless Catholic Reflections
Weekly reflections for July 22, 2025
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Steve Hessman: Living in Christ through love
John Pearring: Skeptical folk inhabit the world
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
Ron Bruni: Wrestling with God
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 Steve Hessman & John Pearring
Inspired by Mass readings from Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Living in Christ through love & conviction
Allowing that love to be the driving force behind all we do
Click here to read Steve Hessman’s reflection from June 22, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
“What did he desire but that we should become like him? ‘That those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.’ How powerful a consequence is this in the matter of love! Jesus Christ died for us; by his death he has given us life; we only live because he died; he died for us, by us, and in us; our life then is no longer ours” (St Francis de Sales).
Steve Hessman's reflections: "Amen, Amen. Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit." John 12:24
Doubtful, skeptical folk inhabit the world
Spiritual indwelling, miraculous witness, and testimony mean we swim upstream
Click here to read John Pearring's reflection from July 22, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
When more skeptical folk inhabit the world than believers, a miraculous interventionary loving God doesn’t have to operate with ferocious, even outrageous responses. The accumulation of miraculous reminders will overwhelm the deniers. Skeptics arrive at a strict, blindered-view from many paths. That our creation was intentional, and being related to the divine in a parental/child manner, takes courageous surrender. Miracles aid us in taking every step — some will be big, but most will be small, steady, and unwavering.
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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