In our Jesuit lore it is said that Ignatius had trouble in bringing home his message to Francis Xavier while they were students together. The ice broke when Ignatius brought out the text that is part of our gospel ...

The readings in today's liturgy center on the familiar story of Jonah and the big fish (whale?). What a great short story that is! In the beginning, Jonah is given a task by God to travel to the land of Nineveh and to ...

Today's gospel is from St. Luke's "sermon on the plain" a parallel to St. Matthew's Sermon on the Mount. In these sermons, or collections of Jesus' sayings, the Lord summarizes how he wants his followers to live their ...

Today's gospel has an ominous and fearsome tone. After casting out a demon, Jesus is confronted by the crowd's reaction that he drives out demons, "by the power of Belzebul, the prince of demons." To which he replies, "If ...

The gospel for today is rich fare indeed. It is the well-known story of the "good" Samaritan. Jesus tells that parable in answer to the question posed by a scholar of the Law. He asks Jesus the not-quite-ingenuous question ...

The passage in today's gospel reading follows immediately upon St. Luke's version of the Our Father. It seems to give further explanation of the disciples' original petition of Jesus: "Lord, teach us how to pray." I am ...

The injunction to "Walk the Walk" and not just "Talk the Talk" seems to be at play in the reading for today's Liturgy.  These phrases challenge us on multiple levels of our life, but especially in regards to our faith in ...

In the first reading in today's liturgy, the reading from the Book of Genesis, God is in dialogue with Abram. God promises him that he will be the father of a great nation. Then he says to Abram, "no longer shall you be ...

"Look toward heaven and count the stars," the first lines of the reading from the Book of Genesis, reminds me of the immensity of the universe. It makes me recall lying on a pier at a lake in Northern Wisconsin on a clear ...

The gospel reading for today is a wonderfully familiar passage. We call it the story of the "prodigal son" with the main characters of the tale being a father and his two sons. The younger one gets his father to divide the ...