Fr. Bob’s Weekly Reflections

Some time ago, a group from the University of Southern California became curious about why some people succeed while others with equal talents and opportunities fail.

My friends, Christ did it all wrong, according to the standards of the world. Just look who He chose to spread His Kingdom.

Sixteen hundred years ago a Bishop of Jerusalem addressed some converts. On the Holy Communion that they were to receive for the first time.

Today is Trinity Sunday; our faith tells us there is but one God. In the one God, there are three persons-Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

Many of us know friends who are generous, perhaps impulsive or unpredictable. They can be extremely loyal but a bit of a “coward” so that you can’t always depend on them.

Years ago, there was a play on Broadway called the “Great God Brown” and in one scene; a man was on his deathbed. He was very frightened but his mother was at his side.

A single mother is frantic. She has found a six-pack of beer in her 14-year-old daughter’s closet. When the daughter comes home from school, she confronts her, “Ok Maria, what is this?”

It is true. We all adapt and adjust to our surroundings. We adapt ourselves continually and necessarily because our society demands adaptation.

In the sixties, Joni Mitchell sang a song “I’ve looked at life from both sides now. From win and lose and still somehow it’s life’s illusions I recall.

The appeal of the Emmaus story is that it talks about where most of us live. There are no revelations, no great Saints, no exotic places, or people.