May 2025 archive of Reflections
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the Ascension of the Lord, Year C, June 1, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 5/31/25
Coaches always sound the warning to runners in relay races that it’s less important how fast a member of the relay team runs. Rather, the critical aspect of a relay race is the passing on of the baton from one runner to the other. More relay races are won ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 25, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 5/24/25
Compared to the Council of Jerusalem, the Second Vatican Council produced hundreds of pages of conciliar and post-conciliar documents. Whether the final document of a council is a line, a paragraph, or hundreds of pages, every Church council retains the same essential elements. First, a council is convoked to ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 18, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 5/16/25
If you’re a grammarian, you’ll notice the ‘time clause’ introducing the Gospel reading of today—“When Judas had left….” Time clauses are used to express events that happened or will happen at a particular time. Hypothetically, the event wouldn’t happen at some other time. For example, “When I have free ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 4th Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 11, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 5/09/25
It was my mother’s birthday. I was in Rome and thinking how I would mark her birthday. As I listened to the BBC that morning, I heard of a new catacomb opened in Rome called the “Catacombs of Priscilla.” The newscaster had a number of women who were arguing ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 4, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 5/02/25
Often, we feel we have mastered the universe and how it works based on our ability to plumb a minuscule area of our natural habitat. Feeling that they have found the universal equation explaining everything, some in modern society who take naturalism and rational thought as their creed go ... Read More »