FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION

Why do you not believe me? Jesus asks the Jews: “Why do you not believe me”?  This Sunday’s gospel talks about faith as acceptance of, or the return to God. Returning to God!  Is it too late to return to God? Many congregations are dwindling exponentially from within. These are folks who were active in  Read more …

FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION

“In their thirst and hunger, they grumbled.” Jesus’ encounter with the multitudes over the Sea of Galilee, could serve as a metaphor for our great thirst and hunger. We languish for the living Water (Bread). It satisfies and refreshes. It revives and cleanses. We die without it. This is our condition: we thirst, we hunger.  Read more …

FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION

Evil is real and fatal Demons have played a large part in mythology, books, movies, and even music. Films such as “Paranormal Activity” and “The Exorcist” have made demons something to fear. Movies, however, rarely scratch the surface of just how evil these corrupt former servants of God can be. Everywhere the Bible sees a  Read more …

FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION

“O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee as thou wilt.”    In today’s Gospel, the Canaanite woman implores Jesus to save her daughter, who “is grievously vexed with a devil”.  The message of Lent seems much concerned with devils, and with what can and should be done about them. But what, really, are we  Read more …