Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” And every day he was teaching in the temple area. —Luke 19:45–47 Do you not know that… Read More Frassati Reflection: The Sacredness of the Temple

For from the greatness and the beauty of created things their original author, by analogy, is seen. —Wisdom 13:5 The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from. —C.S. Lewis Sometimes the beauty of creation is dazzlingly obvious, shining forth from a sunrise or… Read More Frassati Reflection: For the Beauty of the Earth

Thus I aspire to proclaim the Gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another’s foundation, but as it is written: Those who have never been told of him shall see, and those who have never heard of him shall understand. —Romans 15:20–21 God is the fullness of… Read More Frassati Reflection: What We Mean When We Say “God”

In today’s Gospel, Jesus cures on the Sabbath. The Pharisees are shocked by His acts of mercy, which appear to them as impropriety. Here we see that mercy can look radical, even unseemly, to those who have not contemplated their own need for it. If we do not realize that God bent down to the level… Read More Frassati Reflection: Feast of St. Martin de Porres