Lenten Reflection

“The greatest among you must be your servant.   Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Christ really nails the scribes and Pharisees.     They put heavy burdens on others, but won’t “lift a finger to help them.”   Perform good words to be seen.   Love the paces of honor in public.    Don’t practice what they preach. Stern words there.   Some challenge.  Humble yourself.   Before our peers, our students,...

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Success Center

Every Monday thru Wednesday I volunteer at the Campus Ministries Success Center. I initially did Success Center for my education classes to gain my hours of experience and even after I was done with my hours I continued to volunteer. I am not an education major anymore but, I still volunteer at the Success Center. The reason why I continue is because I have compassion for the students who need help. Every time I go (to Success Center), multiple students ask for my assistance! I have had so much fun tutoring the kids and in return they respect...

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Lenten Reflection

I can do that.  I can be merciful, forgiving, and generous.  I can stop judging and condemning.  It’s very easy here in the chapel.  Yes, but out there in the world it is not very easy Jesus is not talking today about avoiding sin; he is talking about how we react to the evil committed by others. Perhaps one of us has been the victim of evil; perhaps a relative, a friend or a neighbor has suffered.  Surely, we have all too recently and too often learned in the news about serious acts of violence. We can feel it deep...

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Lenten Reflection

Thursday after Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2013 (Deuteronony 30:15-20; Luke 9:22-25) In all the years I have helped organize Lenten Reflections, I don’t think I have ever offered a reflection on this first day of the series. Let me take advantage of the opening slot to dedicate Lenten Reflections this year to the man who first organized Lenten Reflections at Iona, back in the early 1970s: Jim Poisson was at that time the Director of Campus Ministry, a young Crozier priest filled with energy and enthusiasm. After he left Iona, he worked at...

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