Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
In Jesus’ discourse to love our enemies, He implies that we are often quick to judge rather than to love. It is easy to see the people we dislike or oppose us as being unworthy of love, but we must remember that every human person has the same dignity and is worthy of the love of God simply because they are human; made in the image and likeness of God.
Read MoreIn the Gospel today, the pitiful yet noble Bartimaeus meets Christ. Bartimaeus is so helpless, trusting and desperate, unashamed of his poverty; a man in touch with his real needs. Unlike most of us, he knows he is not self-sufficient; he knows his life is in need of a saving presence.
Read More“Receive the Holy Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them; whose sins you retain, they are retained.” This Gospel passage is related to the other passages before the death and resurrection of Christ when He promised the twelve apostles, and especially Peter, the power to “bind and to lose.”
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