The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field ... like a merchant searching for fine pearls ... like a net thrown into the sea||Jesus transforms our thinking about the reign of God. He does not want us to ...

John the Baptist was a conscience problem for Herod. Herod wanted to kill this prophet who reminded him and others that Herod shouldn't be living with his brother's wife. However, Herod had a second flaw. He liked to be ...

Then Nathan said to David: "You are the man!"|I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and ...

I, the LORD, Bring low the high tree, lift high the lowly tree ...|This is how it is with the kingdom of God ...|When Jesus proclaimed that the "Kingdom of God is at hand," the poor, the lowly, the marginal must have ...

This gospel stops me, Lord. I think you mean these words for all of us - for me. You are telling me that my salvation depends not only on my being "righteous" - good, holy, together - but upon how I treat others - particularly ...

One side effect of my father's illness is his suffering from a filling up of fluids in his body. It's called edema, or "dropsy." So I have a vivid image of Jesus looking at this man across the table from him, suffering ...

"Consider your ways!" Haggai 1||Herod Antipas was the son of Herod the Great, who was the cruel king at the time of the Nativity story - the butcher of the children of Bethlehem. The son inherited a quarter of his father's ...

"Do you believe that I can do this?" Matthew 9||This is the central question of our Christian lives. To be a follower of Jesus, to accept what he offers us, and to accept our mission to make a difference by loving and ...

This is a wonderful feast to celebrate early in our Advent journey. It is a very "Catholic" celebration. It represents a profound belief in the way God worked to save us. It represents a long standing conviction that God ...

"Fear not, I will help you." "I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them." Isaiah 41|In this Second Week of Advent, we continue to hear the promise. It is a promise of the coming of one who ...