2022 archive of Reflections
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, August 14, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 8/12/22
No one can feel happy with Jesus today. Could you imagine him saying and using these “hateful” and “demoralizing” words: “I have come to bring fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already blazing! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, August 7, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 8/05/22
I have a question for you to which I would request that you give a special thought: If you had to describe your faith to someone, what would you say? I’m not asking about your religion. I mean your faith. What do you believe? What is your strongest conviction? ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, July 31, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 7/28/22
I read a sign outside one Church which says: “Do not wait for the hearse to take you to Church.” They’re words for one who has no room for God. Wealth and possessions are typically blessings from God. If you’re wealthy, count yourself as blessed by God. Yet, possessions ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, July 24, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 7/22/22
You wouldn’t think that the dialogue between Abraham and God in the first reading was prayer. Yet, if prayer is a dialogue between the human person and God, then Abraham’s ‘bromance’ with God was certainly a lofty dialogue, where tenderness, veneration, and boldness fuse admirably together (Motte). Though Jesus ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, July 17, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 7/15/22
Who in your life is a stranger? The baby in the womb that has been judged unwanted? The person with a different political position or opinion? The immigrant next door who plays his music loud? The lady with a flat nose and thick ascent whom you hardly understand her ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, July 10, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 7/08/22
Though the distance from Jerusalem to Jericho is merely 15 miles, the hazardous interstate road takes a traveler from a height of approximately 2,500 feet above sea level to a depth of 800 feet below. The traveler endures dusty desert terrains before meeting the plush green fields of the ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C, July 3, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 6/30/22
During their Totuus Tuus program, a group of young facilitators of the summer catechesis taught the children a game called: “How to spot a disciple.” A child dressed up and played Peter nailed upside down the cross. Another dressed like Paul with the sword of the man who beheaded ... Read More »
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 »