This Lenten season, Michael Simone, S.J., Brian Dunkle, S.J., STL ’09, and Richard J. Clifford, S.J., will offer weekly reflections to help you prepare for Easter.

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Easter Sunday Reflection

Why are the Resurrection accounts so lacking in drama and pizzazz? I would like to offer my own proposal of the Resurrection of Jesus—how I would have designed Jesus’s Resurrection and meeting his disciples again.
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Palm Sunday Reflection

Palm Sunday invites two competing responses. Undeniably, there is an element of joy in observing this feast. Celebrated when spring is returning with milder temperatures, there’s a lift in people’s spirits. Yet the tone of the liturgy is somber. What you notice as you listen? What stands out for you?
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Fifth Sunday of Lent Reflection

Yes, sometimes we need simple comfort, a sign from God that he is with us. But those signs must lead us more deeply into the mystery of the Cross, the mystery that we celebrate at every Eucharist.
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Fourth Sunday of Lent Reflection

This Laetare Sunday, we have real cause to rejoice. If we are ready to make up for lost sabbaths, or if we can now see the past year in a new light, we can indeed rejoice that God has restored us to the rest and consolation that we desire.
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Third Sunday of Lent Reflection

In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus gets his message across not with a parable or a sermon, but with a whip of cords. He overturns tables, releases animals intended for sacrifice, and disrupts the sacrificial system of the temple. What caused Jesus to become so incensed?
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Second Sunday of Lent Reflection

Years ago I saw a man transfigured. I was attending a 12-step recovery meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that took place at First Baptist Church on Central Square.
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First Sunday of Lent Reflection

Lent is a time of growth. These weeks leading up to Easter are a time to let God guide us into new ways of living our lives, new efforts at self-discipline, and new habits of generosity and forgiveness.
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Ash Wednesday Reflection

“Too often, when I look into my heart, all I see is a lot of me. There’s not much room there for anyone else, and that’s my real problem.” These were words spoken at the meeting of a 12-step fellowship not too long ago.

Michael R. Simone, S.J.
Michael R. Simone, S.J.

Michael R. Simone, S.J., is a Jesuit priest of the USA Midwest Province. After undergraduate studies at John Carroll University and graduate work at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, he attended Johns Hopkins University where he received a PhD in Northwest Semitics and Assyriology. He currently teaches Scripture at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, and his research focuses on ritual and imagination in the religions of the ancient Near East. Fr. Simone is a former columnist for America Magazine and is currently a volunteer chaplain at MCI Cedar Junction.

 
Brian Dunkle, S.J., STL’09
Brian Dunkle, S.J., STL’09

Brian Dunkle, S.J., STL ’09, is assistant professor of Historical Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. A member of the East Coast Province of the Jesuits, Fr. Dunkle studies early Christianity, the theology of the Fathers of the Church (patristics), and the development of liturgical hymns. He serves in the Archdiocese of Boston as a spiritual director and a weekend assistant at parishes in Everett and Revere, as well as at the correctional institutes of Concord.

 
Richard J. Clifford, S.J.
Richard J. Clifford, S.J.

Richard J. Clifford, S.J., a native of Lewiston, Maine, professor of Old Testament, and Jesuit priest, taught biblical studies at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge from 1970 to 2008. He is a graduate of Boston College (AB, MA), Weston Jesuit School of Theology (STL) and Harvard University (PhD). He was general editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly and is a former president of the Catholic Biblical Association. A former president of Weston Jesuit School of Theology, he was founding dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry from 2008 to 2010. As well as teaching and lecturing in scholarly circles, he is also active in adult education in various New England dioceses.

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