Community Reflection "Then Jesus said to them, 'All of you will have your faith shaken, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be dispersed. But after I have been raised up, I shall go before you to Galilee.'" (Mark 14:27-28) Every year when Holy ... [read more]

Community Reflection “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say: Father, save me from this hour? But it is for this very reason that I have come to this hour.” (John 12:27) As I’ve scrolled through headlines in my newsfeed this past year, I have often asked God the very ... [read more]

Community Reflection But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God. ~ Jn 3:21 I can’t remember the last time I went to mass in an actual building. It must have been around this time in 2020, before the world shut down ... [read more]

Community Reflection "He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers seated there...he said, 'Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.'" (John 2:14, 16) In this week's Sunday Gospel reading, ... [read more]

Community Reflection "Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white..." - Mark 9:2-3a The Transfiguration has always been a strange and unrelatable event ... [read more]

Community Reflection "The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan..." - Mark 1:12-15 This spartan passage from the Gospel of Mark provides the reader with hardly any details of Jesus' temptation in the desert. ... [read more]