by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
John 20:19-31 Lead in: John 20:19-31 takes us to the room where the disciples are holding out. They have locked the door for fear that what happened to Jesus would happen to them. They are struggling to make sense of all that has happened. The one they had followed...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Apr 6, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
John 20:1-9 Lead in: The Gospel presents us with concrete tangible signs of Jesus’ resurrection, that Jesus is not dead but alive. In John 20:1-9, we hear how the stone to the tomb has been rolled back. There is no body, it’s missing and the linens are neatly folded...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Lead in: One tradition has it that the first thing put to writing in the Gospels were the accounts of Jesus’ passion and death. Working backwards in time, the Gospels developed asthe various stories were pieced together, giving us a more complete picture of who Jesus...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 17, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
Lead in: St. Ignatius had the dream of starting a religious order. But he had the freedom to die for his dream if that’s how it had to be.Prompt: Reflect on something you dreamed of being able to do but were never given the chance to do it. How hard was that to grieve...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 5, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
John 3: 14-21 Lead in: In 1936, Bob White, Sr., and in 1966 Bob White, Jr., went back to school in the fall after their summer jobs. They both somehow felt different. They couldn’t explain it, butothers could see it. Maybe it was because they were learning to believe...
by pdavid@stvictoria.org | Mar 1, 2024 | Pondering With Prompts
John 2:13-25 Lead in: As the expression goes, pain not is transmitted. We saw that played out in ugly ways in the burning of the cities that occurred after the death of George Floyd.The injustice of the death of an innocent black man led to the injustice of the...
