Luke 15:1-32, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel is about the one that got away. We all have such a person in our life: Somebody we used to care for deeply, someone somehow entrusted once to our care, someone who inhabited our universe once upon a time and–for just that brief fairy tale moment–made…
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Ignacio de Loyola, Builder of Bridges – Johnny Go, SJ
Luke 12:13-21 (Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola) What will you build in your life? That’s the question that our simple but profound parable in today’s Gospel asks us. It’s also the perfect question on the day we honor the saint who spent his life wrestling with that question. In a sense, everything in our…
Snakes and Scorpions – Johnny Go, SJ
Luke 11:1-13, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time This Sunday’s Gospel has much to teach us about prayer, but it’s our Lord’s explanation of his parable of the desperate friend that struck me: “Knock and the door will be opened to you… What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for…
The Good Innkeeper – Johnny Go, SJ
Luke 10:25-37 (15th Sunday in Ordinary Time) We’ve all heard the Parable of the Good Samaritan before, and of course, its message is loud, clear, and timely: Just like the Good Samaritan, we are each called to help those in great need–even and especially strangers, those of a different race, region, or religion. I can’t…
A Theory of Divine Mercy – Johnny Go, SJ
FOR 13 MARCH 2016 John 8:1-11 (Fifth Sunday of Lent) Today we are presented with what I consider one of the defining moments in the public ministry of our Lord. A woman caught in the act of adultery is dragged into the temple square to stand in shame and in full view of a blood-thirsty…
To be Shepherded – Johnny Go, SJ
19 July 2015 Mark 6:30-34 (Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time) In today’s Gospel reading, the sight of the crowd summoned the shepherd in the Lord. What did it, we are told, was that they were like a shepherd-less flock of sheep. Nothing, after all, moves the heart of the Lord as much as his desire…
One Lost Sheep 