Reflections
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 »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday), Year C, April 27, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 4/25/25
Today, we mark the Octave of Easter. The word ‘octave’ is a Latin expression for eight days. We mean by octave that the eight days from Easter Sunday to this Sunday form liturgically speaking a single day—which is also called ‘the day of the new creation.’ (It should also ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for Easter Sunday, Year C, April 20, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 4/19/25
To all God’s faithful children who have, especially, journeyed with the Lord through the Lenten (spring) days of preparation for the celebration of the Pascha, I bring this Resurrection Greeting—Happy Easter to you all! Today we arrive at the culmination of our Lenten journey and we rejoice at the ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, Year C, April 13, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 4/11/25
If you care about real and true news, I’ll give you one; and the news is: “This is the most important week in your life.” Is that news enough? Then brace up for what it brings. As it was during the week of the Passover 2000 years ago, I ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C, April 6, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 4/04/25
They call it the story of the “Stone Never Thrown,” demonstrating God’s compassion, repudiation of the judgment of the world, the last statement in rejection of the thirst for blood in death penalty, and call to abandonment of sin. The charade orchestrated by Jesus’ enemies appeared as an inescapable ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, “Laetare Sunday" , Year C, March 30, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 3/29/25
Suppose you have two $50 bills, one rumpled and dirty and the other crisp. Which of them has a higher value when you go to deposit them? I guess you know the answer. The difference between a bad person who returns to God and a good person in the ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the Third Sunday in Lent, Year C, March 23, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 3/20/25
I’m not too familiar with baseball; but years ago when I tried to learn the rudiments of baseball and how to swing the bat, I gathered from my little friend who tried to teach me that, three swings and three misses means you’re on your way to the dugout. ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year C, March 16, 2025
Posted by John Wolf on 3/15/25
Our Lenten journey takes us from the temptation desert of last Sunday to today’s mountain of Transfiguration. Our leader in this journey is no other than the Son of God who wants to be sure that before He leaves us to return to the Father, we must have experienced ... Read More »