Year B Acts 4:5-12 Psalm 23 1 John 3:16-24 John 10:11-18 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Literary philosopher René Girard described the scapegoat mechanism… as a ritual to transfer onto an animal… everything likely to poison relations between members of the community… and its effectiveness was based in...
Year B Acts 4:32-35 Psalm 133 1 John 1:1-2:2 John 20:19-31 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s the second Sunday of Easter… and Eastertide lasts until May 23… until Pentecost… so we have several more Sundays to reflect on the paschal mystery… on the death and resurrection of...
Year B Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Mark 16:1-8 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… We learn… we grow… we accomplish goals… we reach milestones in our lives… like the tick marks on the kitchen door frame that record how tall we were at the beginning...
Have you ever seen an image of a virus? They look much different than bacteria. That’s because viruses are not living organisms and bacteria are. Viruses only grow and reproduce inside of the cells they infect. When found outside of these living cells, viruses are dormant. Their “life” therefore requires the hijacking of the biochemical activities of...
Mr. Alex Quick Year B Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 31:9-16 Philippians 2:5-11 Mark 15:1-39 When I was in college, my family went on a vacation to the Florida keys. My father had a bit of a rebellious and subversive streak in him, and was tickled while we were there to learn that, in the eighties,...