July 2020 archive of Reflections
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 17th Sunday of Yr A, July 26, 2020
Posted by John Wolf on 7/26/20
For the past three Sundays, we have focused on the Parables of the Kingdom, with Jesus using several stories drawn primarily from the agricultural setting to illustrate the eternal value of the kingdom and the urgency to attain it. The soil that enabled the ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 16th Sunday of Yr A, July 19, 2020
Posted by John Wolf on 7/19/20
During the planting season, my mother taught us to plant the corn in a straight line and about 46 centimeters or a foot and half apart from each other. When the corn starts to sprout, we were prohibited from helping with the weeding. My mother ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 15th Sunday of Yr A, July 12, 2020
Posted by John Wolf on 7/12/20
I want to make a public confession: Some of the best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who is the love of my life, though she’s someone else’s wife. But before you stray too far in thought, that woman was my mother, ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 14th Sunday of Yr A, July 5th, 2020
Posted by John Wolf on 7/05/20
After I became the rector of Holy Family Cathedral, I read through the annals of the cathedral and learned how my predecessor, Fr. Heiring assembled parishioners of Holy Family Church to break the grounds for the Church that is now the cathedral. At that ... Read More »