I do not understand everything. And I do not understand anything at all in a perfect manner, and far from it. And as I get older and see how rich and complex even the most simple things are in their nature and in what they ...

The readings from both Isaiah and Matthew are fairly clear, so I would like to focus on the psalm instead. Individual lines here summarize and encapsulate elements of the spiritual life that we can lose sight of in the ...

Some feastdays that we celebrate seem to be too rich or too complex for us to do them justice in either our celebrations or our homilies. I think here especially of Holy Thursday, but I have the same feeling about Christ's ...

This gospel, the last of the liturgical year, is aimed at our attachment to the things of this life and our focus on them, at what is both literally and metaphorically our clinging to such things. Jesus asks that instead ...

"God comes" in all three of today's readings, differently in each of them. How do we respond?||One way is with gladness and eagerness, trusting in God's love and doing our own straightening of roads, our own making the ...

Note: the original web page lists the first reading as Galatians 1:6-12|Jesus says that we will be called to give witness on his account, and the terms that he uses imply that this will be in outstanding circumstances --- ...

Isaiah is a prophet, one who sees reality as God inspires him to and who then speaks of that reality as God impels him to. Here Isaiah speaks of the changes that God will operate, and he describes those changes in three ...

Paul's letter opens with a joyous shout of energy, a hymn of joy and gratitude to God for what the Lord has done. I think that the vision here and in the first chapter of John's Gospel is critical in understanding our ...

Today is the last day of the last week of the liturgical year, and the readings reflect this "last days" attitude. Our first reading looks at how God's holy ones will survive the violence and the chaos of the end times, ...

Some people in the Bible are willing to proclaim the word of God, and among them we find not only Samuel (I Samuel 3), Isaiah (Isaiah 6), and Christ's disciples, but also the false prophets of the books of Samuel and the ...