Reflections
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 6th Sunday of Easter, Yr C, May 22, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 5/20/22
Compared to the Council of Jerusalem—the First Church Council, the document of which formed the First Reading of the Mass today—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 a textbook with ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Easter, Yr C, May 15, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 5/13/22
It’ll take a grammarian to notice the ‘time clause’ introducing today’s Gospel reading: “When Judas had left….” Time clauses are used to express successive 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, Yr C, May 8, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 5/06/22
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, Yr C, May 1, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 4/29/22
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 go to the extent of reducing any recourse to faith and God as ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy), Yr C, April 24, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 4/23/22
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, Yr C, April 17, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 4/15/22
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 Yr C, April 10, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 4/08/22
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 5th Sunday of Lent Yr C, April 3, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 4/01/22
A double whammy was cleverly set up by the duplicitous enemies of Jesus who in a bid to draw blood, wanted to hoist it on Jesus. Their purpose: blackmail Him into passing a death sentence on a woman caught in adultery and show Himself as a hypocrite who could ... Read More »
Fr. Jo's Reflection for the 4th Sunday of Lent Yr C, March 27, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 3/25/22
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 3rd Sunday of Lent Yr C, March 20, 2022
Posted by John Wolf on 3/18/22
I’m not too familiar with baseball but a few years ago I tried to learn. 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. Is that true? While I’m unfamiliar with baseball, I ... Read More »