If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy not sacrifice,|you would not have condemned these innocent men." - Matthew|On one of those Sundays in July when it was a toss-up whether the heat or the humidity was worse, the ...

"Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you for wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God."|Book of Ruth|As I savor this passage from the Book of Ruth, I ...

"Now those who had been scattered went about preaching the word." Acts|On the morning that my father died, all six of his children went to work.  We remembered that he had always told us: "No matter what happens, you have ...

"Take courage, all you people of the land, says the Lord!... For I am with you …And my spirit continues in your midst; do not fear!" |HG|            In February our former president, John Schlegel S.J., shocked and saddened ...

"Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us exercise them." Romans|   |I was behind a woman with Downs Syndrome in a grocery store line and impatient to get home to fix dinner after a hard ...

It's amazing what can happen to people when they turn their fears over to God and invite him into their lives as Tobiah and Sarah did in today's moving passage from the Book of Tobias.|I didn't originally plan to write ...

"Whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen." - 1 John 4|Every now and then I see him from a distance at the gym we both belong to – the man who betrayed me for many years. I ...

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."|Matthew|As ...

"I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go."  Isaiah It was a stereotypical November day: gray, raw, cold and windy. Everything on Creighton's campus seemed gray, especially ...

"There was a prophetess, Anna ... " Luke|The prophetess Anna rates just one mention in Luke as she thanks God for the birth of Jesus and tells people at the Temple about his importance. I love this passage because I ...