ENKWENTRO

Jesus’ compassion challenges us to take action. 01.05.2025 19:28 ↓

Jesus’ feeding the five thousand must lead us from marveling at a miracle to putting into action what that miracle means.

God is never miserly with His gifts. 30.04.2025 20:46 ↓

In Jesus’ ministry, his teachings, his miracles, even in his suffering and death, the Father’s abundant love never ceases.

True friends tell us what we need to hear, not always what we want to hear. 29.04.2025 24:58 ↓

The Memorial of St. Catherine of Sienna reminds us of the persons God sends us who keep us on the straight and narrow.

Change is a reality of life; we must embrace it, trusting that God alone is unchanging. 28.04.2025 17:06 ↓

Jesus tells Nicodemus that we must be born again, to allow the Spirit to renew and recreate us.

By His Wounds We Are Healed 27.04.2025 24:52 ↓

No one is spared the pains and sorrows of life. St. Thomas found healing for his wounds by touching the wounds of Christ.

Love’s vulnerability. 26.03.2024 23:46 ↓

Love desires what is good for the other person; it also embraces and respects his freedom.

Love’s extravagance (John 12:1-11) 25.03.2024 12:21 ↓

Monday of Holy Week

No good we do is ever done in vain. 23.03.2024 19:11 ↓

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Life is short. The time we have is brief. Have no regrets. Seize the day! 01.09.2023 26:31 ↓

Learning lessons from the five unwise virgins of Scripture.

Heaven on Earth: When we discover that happiness has no purpose other than itself. 15.08.2023 24:08 ↓

On the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Assumption into Heaven

The Power of Affirmation: Strength and Courage for the Great Adventure of Life 05.08.2023 27:57 ↓

The Father affirms Jesus in the work he has done and in the task that still lies ahead.

Take the good, leave the bad. 01.08.2023 24:13 ↓

Sorrow and pain are part of life. Allowing ourselves time to go through them is normal and good, but at some point Jesus invites us to “pick up our mat and walk”. And he’ll be walking with us.

Childlike Wonder and Awe: Keys to Happiness Like No Other 19.07.2023 23:56 ↓

There’s something hidden deep in the simplicity of ordinary everyday life, something that gives a joy like no other.

When the Lord Comes to Disturb Us 17.07.2023 22:35 ↓

We have not been called to a life of ease and complacency, but to a life of greatness.

Finding Healing in Christ’s Wounds 15.04.2023 19:15 ↓

In touching Jesus’ wounds Thomas found healing for his own.

The Disciples on the Emmaus Road and the Greatest Treasure a Christian Possesses. 12.04.2023 31:16 ↓

Peter and John heal a crippled beggar and two of Jesus’ disciples meet him on the road to Emmaus.

Jesus called Mary by name, banishing her sorrow, removing her pain. 11.04.2023 21:29 ↓

When the pains and burdens of life overwhelm and even blind, listen to Jesus calling your name.

God’s Empathy, Putting Ourselves in the Other’s Shoes, and Overcoming Fear 10.04.2023 18:06 ↓

God’s compassion, His empathy for us, is the source of our ability to put ourselves in the other’s shoes and to overcome fear itself.

Today we have been set free. 09.04.2023 23:51 ↓

Christ is risen! The chains that have bound us are broken, the doors of the cells that have imprisoned us have swung wide open. We are free!

“Take courage. I have conquered the world.” (John 26:33) 07.04.2023 23:51 ↓

Jesus’ death on the cross is the final unmasking of the world’s pretensions to power and greatness, revealing it to be nothing but a hollowed-out shell.

Only Service, No Ambitions, No Desires for Advancement, No Schemes for Upward Mobility. 06.04.2023 35:47 ↓

Jesus forever transformed the meaning of power; he called it ‘service’.

Genuine obedience obliterates fear. 04.04.2023 23:05 ↓

Jesus entered his passion without fear, and with full control, laying down his life willingly, because his will was one with the Father’s.

A Morsel of Food and a Final Attempt to Save a Friend 03.04.2023 27:30 ↓

Jesus wasn’t just handing Judas a piece of bread, he was handing himself, if only to remind him perhaps, one last time, of their friendship.

Love extravagantly, you’ll have no regrets. 02.04.2023 25:20 ↓

There’s an extravagance to love that is deep, passionate and complete. It is the key to having no regrets in life.

God’s Vulnerability, Our Vulnerability: Reflections on the Sunday of the Lord’s Passion 01.04.2023 30:25 ↓

God enters fully into our lives so that nothing about us will be beyond his power to redeem.