Sharing: It’s About Justice Thoughts on the First Readings – Joe Frankenfield Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 “I really think we should be giving more to the poor,” a good friend once told me over lunch. He was speaking of his own household, not other people’s. “We could do more than we do.” I remember the [...]

We Needs To Listen Thoughts on the First Readings – Joe Frankenfield Isaiah 66:18-21 A solemn, young Catholic once told me that the first thing that we need to be clear about when talking with other religions is that God has told our church everything important there is to know about faith. As he saw [...]

Keeping Things Straight Thoughts on the First Readings Feast of the Assumption of Mary Revelation 11:19a, 12:1-6a, 10a “There’s nothing we can do about the church. They’ve got all the power. We don’t count. They think that God speaks to them so they don’t have to listen to us and they’re sure that we’re too [...]

No Faith Without Trust Thoughts on the First Readings – Joe Frankenfield Wisdom 18:6-9 “Honest, I won’t pull the football away this time.” “That’s what you said last year.” “But this time I’m telling you the truth. I’m really hurt that you won’t trust me.” “Alright, alright; I’ll let you hold the ball; but don’t [...]

Faith Hopes And Loves Thoughts on the First Readings Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23 There’s a strain in Christian thought that says that most everything we spend our lives working at and worrying about doesn’t much matter. The essential reality is the cosmic battle going on between God and Satan for our souls and our allegiance. Whose [...]