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  Tuesday 4 th Week of Lent    3/17/26   revisited Gospel – John 5: 1-16 Timing is Everything? Old City of Jaffa Back when my wife Ginger was commuting downtown to work, she would always pass by the same homeless person as she got off the expressway.   Too often backed-up traffic prevented her from digging through her purse to find something to give him.   So she made a plan. From that time on, she kept a Ziploc bag filled with granola bars and some other goodies and kept it close to her in the car for ready access whenever the need arose.   She knew that charity shouldn’t depend on timing or convenience.   It isn’t a simple 9-5 activity! This is not the first time Jesus has gotten into trouble with the Jewish leaders for healing on the Sabbath. The Pharisees in today’s Gospel just don’t get it!   All they are concerned with is the letter of the Law and not the needs of the poor and the sick. They end up putting limits on charitable ...
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  Monday 4 th Week of Lent   Gospel – John 4:43-54 The Long and Winding Road! Chapel at Capernaum A royal official in today’s Gospel has traveled from his home in Capernaum to find Jesus in Cana.   He makes this journey to ask Jesus to come back to Capernaum to heal his dying son.   It is a distance of 20 miles from Cana to Capernaum, roughly a 2-day trip by foot.   Imagine all the fears and stress he must have gone through on that long trek.   All the worries about his son’s health, the anguish of leaving him and the very real fear of losing him to his illness!   Sound familiar?   Loss, separation, fear, stress, worry?   And yet he makes the trip!   What in the world would possess him to leave home, to make that long trip?   Faith!   Faith that he would find Jesus!   Faith that he could convince Jesus to come back with him to Capernaum!   Faith that Jesus could/would cure his son!   And in the end, FAIT...
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  4 th Sunday of Lent Responsorial - Psalm 23 Give Me Courage Rainbows! Dear Friends, exactly 6 years ago today (and I do mean exactly), on Sunday March 15, 2020, I posted my first Daily Reflection online .   And so here we are, over 2,100 days and 1.1 million words later (for those of you who are counting)! I think we can all agree that these past 6 years have been a rollercoaster of emotions – a ride we neither expected nor enjoyed!   Covid shutdowns and quarantines, isolation from family and friends, loss of loved ones, political and global unrest, unexpected illnesses and sudden relocations!   I guess it’s a good reminder that sometimes life is a bowl of cherries, and sometimes it’s the pits! Moving forward, I realize it is time for me to make some adjustments to my daily reflection schedule in order to better devote myself to my family and personal responsibilities.   For the past 6 years, I have posted my daily reflections by email, on Facebook an...
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