Fifth Sunday of Lent
Maryknoll Sr. Mary Frances Kobets in Zimbabwe reflects on Jesus’ example of letting one’s clean heart beat for others.
Home / Scripture Reflections / Page 22
Scripture Reflections
First Sunday of Lent
Maryknoll Father Dennis Moorman in Brazil reflects on Jesus’ call for transformation of our sinful social structures as well as ourselves.
Palm Sunday
Marknoll Sister Marvie Misolas reflects on Jesus’ example of courage and faithfulness to God’s call as a source of strength when we face doubt, fear, or even an imminent threat to life.
Ash Wednesday
Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth Zwareva welcomes this day to repent of the past and embrace a new transformed life that God ignites within us, and with it, a desire to love and serve others.
Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Dwayne Fernandes, a Maryknoll Lay Missioner in El Salvador, reflects on God’s call to heal a broken humanity.
Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Father Paul Masson shares a story about a parish in Bolivia that is answering God’s call to be a prophetic community.
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Father Michael Snyder asks, as followers of Christ, how will we respond to the challenges life, knowing that God resides within us here and now?
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Sister Jareen Aquino applies Jesus’ call to the Apostles to “come and see” to the girls and young women in need of education and empowerment in Tanzania.
Epiphany
Maryknoll Fr. Martin Lowery writes that this week’s gospel message is a challenge to walk with life’s uncertainties, trusting that we will be led to the light, led to a new sense of wonder, led to a greater realization of love in our lives.
Solemnity of Mary
Maryknoll Sister Kathleen Reiley looks to Mother of God – the Mother of all of us – to help us reflect on our present reality.
Feast of the Holy Family
Maryknoll Father William Donnelly reflects on the gift of family.
Christmas Day
Every Christmas, despite whatever trial and failing has come, is an opportunity to find new hope and joy.
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Maryknoll Sister Mary Ann Smith reflects on this week’s Scripture reading: No matter the turmoil in which we find ourselves stuck, our God loves us and is always with us.
Third Sunday of Advent
Maryknoll Sister Ann Braudis reflects on the Advent themes of darkness, light, waiting for Christ and welcoming the stranger.
Second Sunday of Advent
Father Frank Breen reflects on the everlasting promise of the Good News of the coming of the Kingdom of God.
First Sunday of Advent
Kevin Carroll, nonviolence and peace fellow at the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, reflects on his students who have awakened him to hope and peace on this first Sunday of Advent.
Feast of Christ the King
Maryknoll Sister Antoinette Gutzler, president of the Maryknoll Sisters, reflects on the solidarity with all who are afflicted, as we all share in the body of Christ.
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Peg Vamosy, a horticulturist by training who works with Catholic parishioners in El Salvador to improve agricultural production, writes this week’s reflection.