by Fr. Bob Glynn, S.J.

I was taking one of my little walks down memory lane they happen more and more frequently. These days. And I was back recently, the first day where I was going to go to kindergarten.

by Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, O.P.

Today is called Good Shepherd Sunday, not a bad description for Mother’s Day given all the shepherding mothers do! Curiously, the phrase Good Shepherd is not in today’s Gospel. Let’s rename it, Good Sheep Sunday since it is all about the sheep recognizing and responding to their shepherd’s voice!

“Just Let Go”
by Deacon John Kerrigan

Today’s Gospel raises an intriguing question: how do you and I come to recognize Christ? While there is no easy answer to this query, I’d suggest that the process of “letting go” plays an important role in arriving at an answer.

“Entertaining Doubts”
by Fr. Dominic DeLay, O.P.

Did you realize the disciples are behind locked doors on the very day Mary told them she’d seen the risen Lord? She did tell them, didn’t she? Haven’t they fully grasped the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection? Is that why they’re still afraid?

by Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, O.P.

Who were the brave ones? … Certainly not the men! … They betrayed, denied, and fled. … It was “the women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee.” Affection brought them, it steeled their nerves to stand before him dying, and brought them to anoint his body.

by Fr. Bob Glynn, S.J.

A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with my dear friend Peter Finch. Now Peter is a doctoral student here … Peter said, Well, I been listening to this podcast that was very interesting, and it has to do with biblical stories. And I was wondering if you would listen to it and give me your take?

Synod Discussion:
Deacon John Kerrigan and Thomas Slabon

The Gospel story is a marvelous example of the Yes-And nature of Jesus’s ministry: mercy and justice, freedom and modesty, inner prayerfulness and a call to serve others. With this notion of Yes-And in mind, we have a wonderful segue into a conversation about the Synodal process that the Catholic community has been going through over these past few months.

by Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, O.P.

Too often we miss Paul’s surprising words. He wrote: Whoever is in Christ is a new creation. … Do you feel new? … Or do you, like me, repeatedly confess the same old tired sins? … For most, sanctity is not sinning, dying in the state of grace, and getting to heaven. … Is this the Gospel Jesus preached?

by Fr. Bob Glynn, S.J.

In 1997, I arrived at the International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia and was whisked away… for three and a half hours into the middle of the middle of nowhere where I was to live and work and I wasn’t quite ready for some of the cultural shock. The greatest cultural shock for me was there wasn’t anything there. There was no phone. There was no television. There was no library. It was remarkable what there wasn’t.

by Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, O.P.

What is there in today’s readings that speaks to this time of war, national divisiveness, disregard of the planet, and untimely Stanford deaths? What has Abraham’s grisly action and God’s pledge have to do with us during all this pain?