Mike Schramm

Sunday Gospel Reflection (April 6, 2025)

Jesus not only forgives but also restores the woman caught in adultery, lifting her up both physically and spiritually.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (March 30, 2025)

It’s not just the food that matters. It’s who we share it with. Eating is more than just fueling our bodies; it’s a sacred act of unity. The people we eat with shape us, just as we shape them.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (March 23, 2025)

Baptism saves Christians from something, but also for something. It is a call to bear fruit, like the fig tree. Baptism is indeed a gift, but it is more than that—it is also a divine calling.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (March 16, 2025)

The three Apostles look upon not just the face of Christ, but the face of Christ in his heavenly glory. Here, they see the object of Abraham’s hope. Here, there see the object of all of our hopes as it reflects not only the reality of Jesus himself, but all of our heavenly destinies.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (March 9, 2025)

We fall to temptation because we “forget” who God is and who we are. Not forget in that it slips our mind like a piece of trivia, but forget in the covenantal sense. God is no longer present to us. The clearer we can keep God present, or return to his presence as the season of Lent is meant to remind us, the greater resistance we can give to temptation and fulfill what God has planned for us.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (March 2, 2025)

What do our trials produce? Every Christian should expect difficulty in the Christian life because virtue demands discomfort. We ourselves continue our own formation, but in so doing become participants in the formation of the community that will form others, especially the next generation of Christians.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (February 23, 2025)

God’s mercy is informed by His charity because Charity is literally what God is (1 John 4:8). The more we act merciful, the more open we are to God’s mercy, which makes us more open to participate in God’s love. The more we participate in God’s love, the more we participate in God’s nature, which makes us more like God.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (February 16, 2025)

In the readings for this Sunday, we are given an interesting presentation of what are called the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. They do not do so in the way one would expect, but present

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (February 9, 2025)

St. Peter is a man of bold proclamations. Even when it makes us uncomfortable, this is what we want in our popes. The Gospel reading from today is one of two very important connections that St. Peter has to the book of Isaiah...

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (February 2, 2025)

This is why, to have the Gospel and the liturgy bring it all together, what is the primary image we have for the feast of the Presentation are candles. On the surface, this is a reference to St. Simeon’s “light of the world” exclamation, one of the most important titles for Jesus.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (January 26, 2025)

Last week’s readings gave us the powerful image of the relationship between Jesus and His Church as a husband and a wife. This week, the readings take it even a step further by making the relationship a metaphor between a head and body. This, of course, does not conflict with the marital imagery as in a Catholic wedding the two become one flesh...

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (January 19, 2025)

What is to come from this sacrifice? Jesus prepared us for it back in John 2. It is the new and better wine that Jesus himself produces.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (January 12, 2025)

The Baptism of Jesus was the formal beginning of his public ministry and is the beginning of our own Christian life in the Church. One way to dive deeper into the mystery of the Christian life is to dive deeper into the written Word of God.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (Jan 5, 2025)

It is in this vision that the arbitrary human divisions are overcome. With the ushering in and worship by the Magi, the gates of heaven, through the covenant established with Abraham, are opened.

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Sunday Gospel Reflection (Dec 29, 2024)

Family needs to be about balance because it reflects the love of the Holy Family, where there had to be balance because Jesus was God, but also had subjected himself in humility to human parents. It is also a reflection of the Holy Trinity, where there is a balance between the Persons of the Trinity who all share in divinity, but whose nature is sacrificial love. It is a "great mystery."

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