June 2022 archive of Reflections

June 2022 archive of Reflections

Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, June 26, 2022

Posted by John Wolf on 6/24/22

Because the readings of this Sunday point to the calls of different individuals, I’ll like to reflect on the topic of vocation. Vocation comes from the Latin “voco” or “vocare,” meaning call or to call. We can be called to the married life, single life, religious life, priesthood, and ... Read More »

Fr. Jo's Reflection for The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Yr C, June 19, 2022

Posted by John Wolf on 6/17/22

I didn’t intend to shock my RCIA class some years ago when I told them, during a discussion on the Eucharist, that we are a cultic people. I could see their eyes double in size, and read the movement of their tight lips—“We belong to a cult?” In an ... Read More »

Fr. Jo's Reflection for The Most Holy Trinity, Yr C, June 12, 2022

Posted by John Wolf on 6/11/22

Around the year AD 200, one of the early Church Fathers, by name Tertullian, used the word “Trinity” to describe God. 125 years later, at the Council of Nicaea, the Church adopted this term in expressing God’s nature as we proclaim every Sunday when we recite the Nicene Creed. ... Read More »

Fr. Jo's Reflection for Pentecost Sunday, Yr C, June 5, 2022

Posted by John Wolf on 6/03/22

Crunching numbers can sometimes provide needed clarity; so, we have on the count 1,989 years. That’s how long it has been since the Catholic Church was born, and today is her birthday. Before that first Pentecost day, the Church had lived in the ‘womb’ of the Spirit, undergoing varied ... Read More »

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