Palm Sunday kicks off the great paradox of Holy Week. Can you imagine God, the omniscient, omnipotent Creator of the universe, the source of all we are and all we have (you know – God!) willing to be humiliated in front of you? But that’s what He did: He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey […]
Author: Joe Galloway
Keeping Faith in Futile Situations
How do you keep faith in situations that seem futile? I mean, look at what’s going on in our world: wars in Iran and Ukraine, ICE now deployed to airports, a college kid shot just walking across campus with a friend. World peace and brotherly love seem improbable at best if not impossible. But so […]
How Do You See?
Bing Crosby croons, “Do you see what I see?” I know it’s Lent, but that Christmas song popped into my head when I heard Sunday’s first reading. It’s a great story in 1 Samuel 16 about God telling Samuel to go to Jesse’s house to anoint the new king that God has chosen to succeed Saul. […]
give me THIS water
We read in John 4:5-42 about Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. You know the story about how Jesus asks her for a drink, and in their back-and-forth, He teaches, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst.” She replies, “Sir, […]
Live a Holy Life
Did you know we are called to live a holy life? In 2 Tim 1:9 we are told that, “He saved us and called us to a holy life.” How do we live a holy life? We are given the template in the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These are the building blocks, […]