Is classical education the future of Catholic schools? Classical Catholic schools are on the rise. Are they the best way forward? For most of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, educators, students, and families alike were just hanging on to survive school in the midst of a pandemic. Some schools invested in new online software […]
Native Catholic schools chart a new way forward How Native schools are wrestling with their legacy and living out their Catholic charism in the present. It’s the Moon of Snowblindness on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It’s been a cold March with the temperature often below zero. The road passes Wounded Knee and its cemetery […]
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TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME PREACHING CHRIST In the first reading of today we hear Paul speak with conviction and enthusiasm about his mission of preaching the gospel. It is a glorious task. We can feel how the gospel fills him and has become the sole meaning of his life. Let Christ also be the […]
Reflection: Luke 6:6-11 We have already seen the meaning of the Sabbath as a day of great joy, intended to be spent in prayer, listening to the Word of God and sharing meals together – in short, a time spent with the Lord. But, over many years of religious practices, the rabbis interpreted the scriptures […]
TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME PREACHING CHRIST Introduction In the first reading of today we hear Paul speak with conviction and enthusiasm about his mission of preaching the gospel. It is a glorious task. We can feel how the gospel fills him and has become the sole meaning of his life. Let Christ also […]
Reflection: Mark 7:31-37 Prophet Jeremiah calls Israel a “stupid and senseless people, who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear” (Jer 5:21)! Deafness, in the Bible, is the image of the rejection of God’s word. It shows the condition of a person seduced by misleading voices. It is […]
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Lord, Open Our Ears and Lips! We live in era of communication explosion: fax, E-mail, internet or web, and so on. And at the same time, it is an age of isolation and loneliness of people. What people have is information, and what they have lost is personal relations. […]
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Lord, Open Our Ears and Lips Ephphatha! Be Opened! Greeting (see the Gospel) Blessed be the Lord Jesus Christ, who did all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak. May he open our ears to his Word and may he always be with you. R/ […]
TWENTY-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE LAW HAS TO SERVE PEOPLE Paul reminds his Colossians that before their conversion they were estranged from God. Now that they have been reconciled with God and one another, they should remain A frequent sign of their own insecurity is that people seek security in laws and traditions. The […]