Weekly Reflection

The Solemnity of Brotherly Love is observed by the Polish National Catholic on the second Sunday of September. On this day members of the PNCC and the PNU of America – Spójnia, strive to increase their faith and spirituality, and their love for all God’s people; they express a desire to live daily the Two […]

There is no one on this planet who is not in need of some healing. For some it will be physical healing, but for many it will be the healing that we need when we have been hurt by life. It may be a worry or an anxiety about the future or about a family

After a series of Sunday Gospels from St. John, we are back with St. Mark. Jesus is being upbraided by the Pharisees and some of the scribes for His disciples’ failure to pay attention to the laws governing eating. For us in our culture there is an element of parents ticking off their children: “Wash

When Peter, speaking for the twelve apostles, affirms his belief in Jesus, it is in terms of staying with Him, following Him, committing himself to Him completely. So often the word “belief” can mean just accepting statements or doctrines as true, a mere matter of opinion. Yet what today’s Gospel tells us about belief is

Today Jesus announces that He is the living bread come down from heaven to satisfy our deepest longings. He declares that in His flesh and blood God’s life dwells, and that whoever shares in this nourishment will find union with God and the fullness of life. In Jesus, God enters us and calls us to

The journey of our own life can often be very difficult. War and threat of death affect many people. Tragedies strike down the lives of others. We are no strangers to sickness and sorrow. The will to live, the strength to carry on, can be drained out of the best of us. It is then

St. Paul today reminds us “not to go on living the aimless kind of life that pagans live.” There is a purpose to life, St. Paul says, a goal to reach, and a way of living that takes us there. There is a truth about life that we have learnt from Jesus. That truth urges

St. John’s Gospel doesn’t speak of Jesus performing miracles. Instead, it describes the miraculous things Jesus did as signs. A sign either points us somewhere or tells us something and this is true of the signs Jesus gave us. The feeding of the 5,000 strong crowd was such an impressive sign that those who were

In today’s Gospel we hear about Jesus and His apostles, worn out from their ministry, seeking a bit of peace and quiet to recuperate. But, like the mother of a newborn baby, exhausted from sleepless nights but still able to comfort her child, Jesus still finds a bit more to give to the people who

What Jesus is doing in today’s Gospel is part of a larger strategy. Jesus’ choosing of twelve apostles is a deliberate way of showing that His aim is to refund the people of God, as once the twelve tribes of Israel were called by God. The apostles are not to lay siege to anywhere that