Readings: • Am 6:1a, 4-7 • Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 • 1 Tm 6:11-16 • Lk 16:19-31 As we hear the various parables from the Gospel of Luke, it is good to keep two things […]
Readings: • Am 8:4-7 • Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8 • 1 Tm 2:1-8 • Lk 16:1-13 How difficult is the parable of the dishonest steward heard in today’s Gospel reading? “Of all of Jesus’ parables,” […]
On the Readings for Saturday, September 14th, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross […]
Readings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with […]
Today’s liturgical commemoration demands the answer to a fundamental question: Have you accepted the challenge to be a long-distance runner for Christ? […]
On August 22nd, we celebrate the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Established by Pope Pius XII in 1954, this feast illustrates the fact that not only is Mary queen of heaven […]
On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 […]
Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide to […]
Did you ever walk into a theater while the last showing was still going on, so that you saw the end of the film before the beginning? That is something like the experience Peter, James, […]
Readings: • Gn 18:20-32 • Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 • Col 2:12-14 • Lk 11:1-13 According to atheist Richard Dawkins in his best-selling book The God Delusion, the God of the Old Testament is […]
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