From one point of view this gospel passage has an almost comical aspect if we view it through the modern stereotype of the Jewish mother. Her James and John don't seem to object to her ambitions for her boys....|But who ...

In most of the New Testament, Peter appears to be somewhat dumbfounded by what he sees Jesus do and hears him say, but here Peter seems to be very much in tune with the situation and what is called for. He is a professional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What John's gospel says in the Greek is that we must be begotten "again," but the Greek word can also mean "from above." Translators must choose one meaning or the other --- they cannot do otherwise --- but John might well ...

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." ...

Luke has put together three short passages that give us a picture of a Jesus that we don't often see, a Jesus whom I would say is burning with zeal, absolutely driven by the Spirit. This Jesus is a whirlwind, His hand on ...