Fr. Tom’s Reflections

Well . . . sometimes I have given in the past, homilies for kids on Jesus as Truth but we’re all called to be kids at heart so here...

Today’s Gospel is one of the most controversial ones.  A lot of us don’t understand the context of the times though.  In Jesus’...

This Lent let us cast off the spirit of the world and be filled with the Spirit of God’s love.  Here are some words from a song that...

There are many false gods we can struggle with.  I thought of four brackets.  The first bracket involves things that are...

We think we know ourselves, yet most of us admit we don’t know much about let’s say . . . computers.  When you look at the inside of...

Spiderman perches atop a skyscraper, surveying the city of Manhattan.  He views neon lights, majestic skyscrapers, and the statue of...

Emmaus is a touching Easter story. a favorite for some.  There’s a famous painting of the Emmaus encounter.  Jesus is walking...

This concept is from the book Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.  However, it has been creatively adapted.  Satan needed to hire...

Jesus is transfigured!  Pretty cool.  Why does this happen in the middle of Lent?  Well, we need to see the Light at the...

It’s Easter Season, a time for joy and resurrection.  Sometimes we cant forgive and therefore can’t rise.  I don’t mean in then...

I think the Passion is beyond words yet perhaps a powerful image can catch a glimpse of what the Passion means.  One writer portrays...

A young man, “Bob,” died.  Bob was a good man who had lived a loving life.  When he died, he found himself on a prismatic cloud,...

First, let me first wish everyone a Happy Mother’s Day.  I thank God for my mom and sister figures in my life.  I’ll start with...

Oftentimes, we think of God as beyond us.  God created the cosmos, a million galaxies spiraling into infinity.  God is...

Today’s second reading encourages us to expose that what Is hidden or bring it to light.  Eventually, all will be brought to the Light. ...

The Trinity is three Persons in one God.  The Father gives Infinite Love to the Son, and the Son, returns that Infinite Love to the...

It’s kind of freaky in John’s Gospel, what happens in chapter 6, verse 66.  Hello?  That’s 666.  In this passage, after...

Today’s gospel connects with vocations.  Jesus calls the first Apotles.  In a sense, we are all called in different ways:...

Jesus says “I am the truth, the way and the life.”  He doesn’t say “I am the truth . . . only in religion.”  He says “I am the...

I remember reading a theological article on the Fire of God.  It states that the Fire that burns Heaven is the same Fire that burns...

One of the secrets of the universe is contained in the word “God.”  What does it spell backwards?  “Dog.”  Now, I don’t...

Today’s Gospel states that we must love God more than family, carry our cross, and lose our lives in order to find them.  In other...

Our sun burns 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at the core.  That’s intense heat.  Yet in winter, ice forms on the water like a...

Imagine you’re on the planet Pitjandjara.  You’re a mutant ant named Blix, the size of a small lion.  Your jet black with fiery...

I sincerely hope you’re having a joyful Advent Season.  Sometimes Advent can be hectic.  It can be filled with snow, traffic...

One of my favorite songs by John Denver is “Sweet Surrender.”  It goes, “Sweet, sweet, sweet surrender, live, live, live, without care,...

Today’s Gospel describes Jesus as the Shepherd, the Gatekeeper and the Gate.  Jesus is Incarnate Love and Love is all Three. ...

The sun showers down on the back of your neck.  Waves of sand whipped up by the wind, blast against your face.  Sweat pours from...