Readings (Year A): Isaiah 49:3, 5 – 6Psalms 40:2, 4, 7 – 8, 8 – 9, 101 Corinthians 1:1 – 3John 1:29 – 34 Reflection: Healing from...
Author - Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J.
“I remember when . . .” When I was a child, my grandmother began each story with these words. Her stories about the past taught me lessons for my own life...
“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told a crowd of hungry people. Jesus used symbols from the physical, tangible world to help us understand who he is. But no...
The past two years have been exceptional years of human existence. Here in the United States, while we were trying to survive and resolve a world pandemic...
I first encountered St. Ignatius of Loyola when I was a boy. My grandmother had volunteered with Father Pedro Arrupe (one of the great Ignatian social...
The 2010 earthquake, catastrophic flooding in 2016, a deadly hurricane in 2020: It seems that whenever Haiti is in the news, it’s in connection with a disaster...
Recently, during breakfast with a good friend, the conversation suddenly became tense when I made a comment about critical race theory (CRT). My friend felt...
Readings (Year B) Ezekiel 17:22–24Psalm 92:2–3, 13–14, 15–162 Corinthians 5:6–10Mark 4:26–34 Reflection: Mustard seed spirituality The year 2020 was tough. The...
As a Catholic, this year I am not experiencing the joy of the Easter season. Instead, I am in pain. I am sad. I am retraumatized by the death of Black...
