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Today’s first Mass reading is the story of the encounter between the prophet Elisha and Naaman, and Jesus alludes to this passage in today’s Gospel. My friend and colleague Joel Nichols wrote the following reflection as part of daily Lent reflections sponsored by the Office of Spirituality of the University of St. Thomas. The questions […]

Today’s Gospel from Matthew contains a command we are familiar with: Love your enemies. Jesus rejects the old teaching of “love your neighbor and hate your enemy,” in favor of an instruction to love all, in imitation of God, who “makes the sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall […]

Tonight was the opening session of the Lenten Ignatian Retreat at St. Thomas More.  After this initial large group meeting, small retreat groups will meet weekly, and participants will pray each day with materials we provide to them that are based on Weeks 2 and 3 of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I gave […]

Today was the second session of the Fall Reflection Series that Jennifer Wright and I are offering at the University of St. Thomas (on the Minneapolis campus) this year.  The theme for this five week series is Women of the Bible. In last week’s opening session, Jennifer spoke about Sarah and Hagar.  (You can find her talk […]

Monday was the first session of the Fall Reflection Series that Jennifer Wright and I are offering at the University of St. Thomas (on the Minneapolis campus) this year.  Our theme for the five week series is Women of the Bible. Monday I briefly introduced the series and Jennifer spoke our our first subjects: Sarah […]