Homeless Catholic Reflections
Weekly reflections for January 18, 2025
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Norm McGraw: We're lucky, no, 'blessed'
MHB-M: Jesus ‘outside in deserted places’
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Steve Hall: Life isn’t only major events
Older Reflections:
John Pearring: Startling use of witnesses
Steve Leininger: Are you Elijah?
Lou Occhi: The Seven Deadly Sins
Tim Trainor: Who is the fig tree gardener?
Ron Bruni: Persistence, Prayer, & Kingdom
Steve Hessman: Not a single act
Tim Trainor: Luke elevates women
We're lucky, no, 'blessed' that God is with us
Why God allows bad things to happen lies in this sobering truth — we are not the Creator.
By Norm McGraw
Click here to read Norm McGraw’s reflection from January 18, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
We can “confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help,” as Paul tells the Hebrews. Accept the invitation of Christ that he gave Levi: “Follow me.” (Mark 2:13)
Norm McGraw’s reflections: For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. (Ruth 1:16)
'He (Jesus) remained outside in deserted places'
... and people kept coming to him from everywhere. (Mk 1:45)
By MHB-M
Click here to read MHB-M’s reflection from January 18, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. (Mk 1:45)
MHB-M’s reflections: As the Lord told Moses, “No one can see my face and live” (Exod 33:20).
Life is not comprised solely of the major events
He recalled the Exodus account of the first Passover and pondered what he had witnessed
By Steve Hall
Click here to read Steve Hall’s reflection from January 18, 2025. Here's an excerpt:
Just as the sick, not the healthy, need a physician, so too with the spiritually sick, not the spiritually healthy. The breadth of the territory covered by the image is well worth exploring. Take,for example, a simple exchange.
“Good morning. How are you?”
“Well. Thank you.”
Steve Hall's reflections: For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13:9)
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