We sit in what seems to be a growing darkness in the world, and we increasingly recognize that we are helpless to truly change our situation. Whether we be Christians or not, we almost literally await a savior from elsewhere, ...

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 --- ...

This is a very curious gospel passage since Luke turns the spotlight, as it were, away from Christ for a moment and it is the women who accompanied Him who take center stage.|They were not simply groupies; they were ...

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 ...

If I had a small child, maybe 3 or 4 years old, who was very, very well-behaved, who never got dirty, who never asked for anything or questioned anything whatsoever, and who was nothing but completely obedient at all ...

Scripture is a very special form of writing, a letter from faith groups in the past to us in the future. One person wrote down ideas or stories important to him or her in terms of their relationship to God, and that very ...

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Annunciation, postponed for two weeks because this year the traditional date of March 25th fell on Monday of Holy Week. I personally would prefer to consider this the ...

You can get a real insight into who a person is by asking who their heroes are.||For some people, those heroes are very material: they are known and celebrated for their successes in sports, entertainment, politics, finance, ...

In today's Gospel reading Jesus offers us a glimpse of what his union with the Father in the Spirit is, speaks of being in the Father and the Father being in him, and the evangelist then says that Jesus "eluded their grasp." ...

I doubt that what I have to say would fit with a deeper exegesis of Mark's gospel, but there is still something here worth considering.|Jesus leads the blind man aside, so different from what He usually does, and then He ...