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Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Today's Gospel from Matthew 11 is a very consoling one: Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are labored and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you." Yet do we actually do this? Do we hand over our burdens to Jesus or do we try to figure things out ourselves? Yet the peace comes into our life when we can surrender our burdens to the One who can actually do something about them: Jesus, I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything!
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
In one of the mysterious phrases that Jesus often repeats, he says, "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." We find ourselves by losing ourselves, by making our life a gift. We see this especially in the calls to marriage and the consecrated life, which we talk about today!
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Today's readings are about the call and consequences of prophecy. God speaks to every baptized person through the Church and in a personal way in their heart, and their job is not to keep the message to themselves but to share it and live it. This will always bring about opposition in our lives. But God is with us and he will never leave those who are faithful to Him.
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Corpus Christ: The Body and Blood of the Lord. Today we give thanks for the great gift of the Eucharist, which Jesus gives us as a Memorial of his love for us. Because I don't have a public Mass today, instead of a homily here is a personal reflection on the Eucharist.
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
This weekend was ordination weekend in the Diocese of New Ulm, and we are so blessed to have two new priests in our diocese. So this week a bonus episode: A talk I gave for RACE Sunday last November at Holy Redeemer in Marshall. I'm so grateful for God's calling me to the priesthood!
Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
It's helpful for us to notice the obvious difference between the disciples pre-Pentecost and post-Pentecost. They go from fearful men to bold and courageous witnesses of the Resurrection. This leads us to a question: If we have received the same Spirit, then shouldn't this be our experience too? Today we talk about what it feels like to let the Holy Spirit live within us... and what He can do with us if we let Him.
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world and our lives upside-down. In the midst of such loss and struggle, what are we to make of the promise of Jesus to be with us "always, even until the end of time"?
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
Today Jesus once again gives words to the greatest mystery: the relationship between the Father and himself the Son and their relationship to the Holy Spirit. Jesus is telling us about the inner life of God! And, perhaps evening more amazing and mysterious, how he is inviting us to be participants -- through the Holy Spirit dwelling within us -- in the life of God. Our first reading today tells us why this is possible and why the Holy Spirit's indwelling is an objective fact: Because we have been baptized and confirmed. This is what confers the Spirit. So even if we haven't been living life as if the Holy Spirit were living within us, let's begin now.
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
Today our Gospel is from the beginning of Jesus's long Last Supper discourse which takes up chapters 14-17 of John's Gospel. We might call this Jesus's "last words" to his disciples, when he shares with them from the depth of his heart. And so we have to take it seriously when so much of Jesus's focus in this final discourse is on God's Fatherhood. Today on this Mother's Day, we focus on the Fatherhood of God -- which every father and mother needs.