Hopefully you had a blessed week! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength…you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself. Those are the words of Jesus when one of the scribes asked Him which is the first of all commandments. Jesus refers to two…

Hopefully your week was filled with God’s grace and His presence. I must to tell you a story and it’s a true story. When I was a teenager, 16 maybe 17 years old, I had a lot of difficulties communicating with my father. We didn’t fight, it was nothing so dramatic, but … we couldn’t find the same language, we couldn’t understand…

Here is a story: “A woman bought a very expensive dress and when she went home her husband said to her, “When you were trying it on why didn’t you say, ‘Get behind me Satan?’” She said, “I did say ‘Get behind me Satan,’ and when I looked at it from behind in the mirror it was just as nice!” There is…

Hopefully your week was filled with God’s grace and His presence. Can you imagine what a shock it was for the disciples arguing about which of them was the greatest when Jesus placed a child before them? In Palestine at the time of Jesus, children were last. Children had no status until they matured. But Jesus, goes even deeper saying: “if you…

Hopefully your week was blessed. In today’s Gospel Jesus asks the disciples “who do people say that I am? ” And the disciples don’t know. Some say John the Baptist, still others Elijah, some say one of the prophets. But Jesus goes deeper: “but who do you say that I am? ” Peter responds, “You are the Christ!” And here is a…

“Ephphatha” There is a little ritual in the new rite of Baptism whose name and form are taken from today’s Gospel: “The Ephphatha.” The celebrant touches the ears and then the lips of the one to be baptized saying: “The Lord Jesus who made the deaf hear and the mute to speak, grant that you may soon receive His word with your…

Greetings to you all. Hopefully your week was filled with God and His Grace. At the beginning of my reflection for this weekend I’d like to ask: have you ever heard about a canned heart? A canned heart is a closed heart where no one goes in and no love goes out. It doesn’t get hurt. It is a well–preserved heart with…