Scripture reflection for May 12, 2024, Seventh Sunday of EasterDeacon Greg Kandra
Acts 1:1-11 Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Eph 1:17-23 or Eph 4:1-13 or 4:1-7, 11-13 Mk 16:15-20 This is a Sunday of beginnings and endings. We hear the very first words of the Acts of the Apostles -- and ...
Scripture Reflection for April 28, 2024, Fifth Sunday of Easter Deacon Greg Kandra
Acts 9:26-31 Ps 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32 1 Jn 3:18-24 Jn 15:1-8 The readings for this Fifth Sunday of Easter introduce us to someone we don't hear about very much. But he has a lot to say to us, ...
Scripture Reflection for April 14, 2024, Third Sunday of EasterDeacon Greg Kandra
Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 Ps 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 1 Jn 2:1-5a Lk 24:35-48 "You are witnesses of these things." It almost sounds like an episode of "CSI: Jerusalem." But the case unfolding in this Sunday's ...
Scripture Reflection for March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday Deacon Greg Kandra
Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Col 3:1-4 Jn 20:1-9 "Did you hear...?" In our modern information-saturated age, those three little words say a lot. They sum up so much of how we live. Face ...
Reflection for March 17, 2024, Fifth Sunday of LentDeacon Greg Kandra
Jer 31:31-34 Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15 Heb 5:7-9 Jn 12:20-33 Whatever else we may be thinking about in these last days of Lent, the readings for this fifth Sunday make it clear: Something's coming. You ...
Reflection for March 3, 2024, Third Sunday of Lent Deacon Greg Kandra
Ex 20:1-17 Ex: 20:1-3. 7-8, 12-17 (alternate) Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 1 Cor 1:22-25 Jn 2: 13-25 Incredibly, we're already entering the third week of Lent. The ashes are a distant memory. We've ...
Scripture reflection for Feb. 18, First Sunday of LentDeacon Greg Kandra
Gn 9:8-15 Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1 Pt 3:18-22 Mk 1:12-15 Was that it? This weekend, the first Sunday of Lent, we hear Mark's account of Jesus going into the desert before he begins his earthly ...
Reflection for Feb. 4, Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Deacon Greg Kandra
Jb 7:1-4, 6-7 Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 Mk 1:29-39 We've all been there. At the end of a long day, the phone rings, there's a knock on the door, the boss stops by your ...
