"Rejoice, O young man, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth."|Carpe Diem. Seize the Day. The days of our youth do not last forever, so we should take advantage of our youth before we ...

I am a vegetarian. I choose not to eat meat because of moral reasons. I do not personally want to be responsible for the death of animals, and if they had to die so I could eat them or wear their fur or skin, I am responsible ...

Love is everything. Love is what motivates us and keeps us going and gives whatever we do that extra something special. Whatever we do, however technically proficient we may be, without love, it falls flat.||I love my job. ...

The readings today are a testimony of simplicity. The general theme seems to be that the word of God is all that one needs. The word of God is true and needs nothing else beside it. In the reading from Proverbs the petitioner ...

I love Advent. It's such a happy time in the church year. And it's my own church anniversary _ when I converted, more than twenty years ago now, it was the first week in advent. Advent is such a cheerful time I think, ...

Today's gospel is hard to get a handle on. Jesus is actually talking directly to his disciples here, but in the bigger picture, aren't we all disciples? And he tells them that things will be hard for them. They will be ...

Today's readings seem like an odd mix. The first reading talks about how we are all part of God's family, and how God is a part of all families and in fact the source of all families. And the psalm is about the blessings ...

Like many of the other reflection writers, I am a teacher. I take that responsibility very seriously. I think it's very important to make sure the students have good information and have the skills they need to continue ...

Today's first reading gives us a sort of job application list for bishops and other church personnel. Even though the specific details for what sort of person would make a good bishop have changed, the general idea, I ...

I was a music minister for many years, and I still find it hard to read the Mass readings without picking out songs to go with them. I wish I was playing Mass today because I could fit all the music around the first reading. ...