by gary.pierce | May 31, 2026 | Reflections
Whenever preachers approach Trinity Sunday, there is a collective temptation to panic. We start reaching for analogies. We talk about water, ice, and steam. We talk about shamrocks. We talk about three-in-one shampoo. And almost every single time, we accidentally...
by gary.pierce | May 24, 2026 | Reflections
If you look at the disciples in the Gospel of John right after the crucifixion, they don’t look much like a movement that is about to change the world. They look like a group of people trying to survive. John tells us the doors were locked “for...
by gary.pierce | May 17, 2026 | Reflections
We’ve all had those moments where we’re stuck in the “in-between.” Maybe you’re waiting for a hard season of life to end, or waiting for a prayer to be answered. In the First Reading today, the disciples are in that exact spot. Jesus has just been taken up...
by gary.pierce | May 8, 2026 | Reflections
We spend much of our lives searching for a place where we truly belong. We look for it in our professional titles, our family roles, or even in the “altars” we build to the things we value—success, security, or recognition. But as we’ve seen in our journey...
by gary.pierce | Apr 29, 2026 | Reflections
We are a people well-acquainted with worry. Whether it is the anxiety of a missed deadline or the possibly of a life-altering crisis, we often live as if we are still bound in the linens of the tomb. But on this side of the Resurrection, Jesus speaks into our locked...
by gary.pierce | Apr 23, 2026 | Reflections
We live in a world that is constantly trying to define “the good life” for us. The “thief,” as Jesus describes in this Sunday’s Gospel, comes to steal, kill, and destroy our sense of peace by telling us that we are never enough, that we...
