by Marian McGrath | Feb 21, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
Final Reflections on the BeatitudesOver the last few weeks, we have been considering the Beatitudes, those remarkable, paradoxical sayings of Jesus with which he begins the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-12).They are a source for continuing reflection with much more...
by | Jan 3, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
The desire for inner stillness, for the silence of the heart, is really the desire to experience the presence of God, a longing to know that Jesus truly lives with us, is present with his, is always there for us. One of the great tragedies of our lives, of the lives...
by | Jul 27, 2022 | Kevin's Messages
Writer and blogger Victoria Emily Jones posts regular blogs under the title “Art and Theology.” She has posted the above image on the occasion of the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene (July 22). She writes that the American artist, writer, and minister Jan Richardson...
by | May 16, 2022 | Kevin's Messages
Popular culture includes notions about “the rapture,” a future event in which Christians will be caught up from the earth into heaven to be spared from the calamities which befall the world as Christ comes again as judge. A plethora of movies and books such as Left...
by | May 9, 2022 | Kevin's Messages
The prayers and readings of today’s liturgy come together in the theme of the Good Shepherd. Each liturgical season– Advent, Lent, Easter’s 50 days, the time after Pentecost — returns again and again to Jesus under his this image. The wise and gentle...
by | Apr 27, 2022 | Kevin's Messages
The Church that we are lives forever with a painful paradox. On the Lord’s day we “proclaim God’s word and bear witness to Jesus” (Revelation 1: 9). “One like a son of man” touches us at this liturgy and tells us: “there is nothing to fear. I am the first and...
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