FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTIONS

Demons Jesus went into the wilderness and struggled with the demons. Such is the metaphor of Spiritual life presented to us in today’s Gospel. In the course of our lives, we are all “led into the desert by the Spirit,” and we must struggle with the demons. We struggle with the demon of self-sufficiency. Ignoring  Read more …

FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTIONS

The Sower Today’s gospel describes the struggles of sowing, living, growing. All of us struggle, and we struggle in three ways: we struggle to maintain ourselves, (be on the good ground), struggle to grow (get out of the thorns), and struggle to keep depression and death at bay (fall upon the rock). Because we struggle  Read more …