Psalm 1: 1-2, 3, 4, 6 "Those who follow you Lord will have the light of life!"||To follow the true light of life, Jesus that Burning Babe, it helps to know something about false lights that lead us astray.|Ignis fatuus ...

In today's gospel reading Jesus offers us a glimpse of one of the games children played in his time, quite likely one he himself had played in his childhood years. But it is a picture of failure, of a botched game. The ...

Here we find ourselves in the middle of Advent and exactly two weeks from Christmas. Where did the time go? As an academic, this time of year represents the collision of many forces. The impending holidays, the end of the ...

Today's readings offer a difficult promise. "If you would hearken to my commandments," writes the prophet, "your prosperity would be like a river." So also the psalmist assures, "blessed is the man who follows not the ...

As I start this reflection, the first snowflakes of the season dance across the campus. Our Hawaiian students try to catch flakes on their tongue while giggling through it all. They have been waiting for these snowy days ...

"God comes" in all three of today's readings, differently in each of them. How do we respond?||One way is with gladness and eagerness, trusting in God's love and doing our own straightening of roads, our own making the ...

Galatians 5: 18-25 " ... Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness ... orgies and the like. ... ...

Recently, my husband and I visited our daughter and son-in-law and our grandson, Henry who celebrated his second birthday. It was wonderful to watch Henry delight in everything that was going on around him, as he tried to ...

In this 2nd week of Advent, the focus is upon developing a more mature understanding of the Season and a deepening relationship with the Lord.||In the Gospel, Jesus asks: "To what shall I compare this generation?" He answers ...

The day is John of the Cross day. We celebrate a radical openness to God and his grace as lived with great sincerity and great devotion by a great ancestor of ours. We celebrate a passion for God, a search for the divine ...