Gospel Reflection on Matthew 26: 14-25 "He who sits alone and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing: but there is one thing against which he must continually fight: that is, his own heart" -Antony of the Desert

Gospel Reflection on Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 "Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust." Thomas Merton

Gospel Reflection on Mark 6:1-6 "When in doubt, throw out doubt and have a little faith" -E.A. Bucchianeri

Gospel Reflection on Mark 4:1-20 "Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul" -Thomas Merton

Gospel Reflection on Mark 3:22-30 " There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness" -John Connolly

Gospel Reflection on Mark 3:1-6 "The Manager accepts the status quo; The Leader challenges it" -Warren G. Bennis

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Gospel Reflection on Mark 6:45-52 "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation" -D. Elton Trueblood

Gospel Reflection on Mark 6:34-44 "It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them" -Tiberius

Gospel Reflection on Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 "Repentance is not a onetime event" -Margaret Felice

Gospel Reflection on Matthew 2:1-12 "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well" -Voltaire

Gospel Reflection on Luke 2: 16-21 "And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart" (Lk 2:19)

Gospel Reflection on Luke 1:26-38 "Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself" -Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Gospel Reflection on Matthew 18:12-14 "Love is not 'if' or 'because'. Love is 'anyway' and 'even though' and 'in-spite of'" -Unknown

Gospel Reflection on Matthew 15:29-37 "The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen" -G.K. Chesterton

Gospel Reflection on Luke 10:21-24 "The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature" -Antoine Prevost

Gospel Reflection on Matthew 8:5-11 "The weakest part of my life can become the strongest part of my faith"

Gospel Reflection on Luke 21:5-11 "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly" -Richard Bach

Gospel Reflection on Luke 21:1-4 "The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds." -Steve Lawson

Gospel Reflection on Luke 19:1-10 "Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption" -Paulo Coelho