Appreciation and Mystery

Posted on February 20, 2020 by - Brother John's Reflections, Featured

But Jesus turned, looked at his disciples, and rebuked Peter saying: “Get behind me, Satan for your mind is not on the things of God but on the things of humans.” Mark 8:33 The eighth chapter of Mark is a  true revelation of our faith experience.  In it we have Peter both recognizing the truth…[read more]

Not Returning To What Was Left Behind

Posted on November 15, 2019 by - Brother John's Reflections, Featured

So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, a person who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise a person in the field must not return to what was left behind. Remember the wife of…[read more]

Faith Or Works

Posted on October 17, 2019 by - Brother John's Reflections, Featured

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too?…[read more]

Thanks and Praise For It All

Posted on May 8, 2018 by - Brother John's Reflections

So they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.  He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds; then he and all  his family were baptized at once.  He brought them up into his house and provided a meal and with his household…[read more]

Awakening Our Souls

Posted on December 14, 2017 by - Brother John's Reflections

In the wilderness I will put cedar trees, / acacias, myrtles, olives. / In the desert I will plant juniper, / plane tree and cypress side by side; / so that all may see and know, / may all observe and understand, / that the hand of Yahweh has done this, / that the Holy…[read more]

Contemplation and Knowing

Posted on October 19, 2017 by - Brother John's Reflections

Woe to you lawyers! You have taken the key of knowledge. You do not enter yourselves, and you close out those trying to enter. Luke 11: 52 Jesus’ charge against the “lawyers,” the “scholars of the law,” is that they are not only mired in their own ignorance but that they also exert effort to…[read more]