The Easter Vigil is one of the greatest liturgies of the Church year. In the early Church the community kept vigil for much of the night to await the dawn and to bring those joining the Christian community to the Sacraments ...

PREPRAYING || We pray for the desire to overcome our sins by prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. Prayer will reduce us to our baptismal dignity. We pray so as to hear more clearly our baptismal name and mission.|Fasting ...

I have been weeding a lot lately as the summer rains and sun have given life to everything in our garden - including weeds. There is one weed that always fascinates me. It's a tiny thing and I usually catch it when it's ...

Initially this parable appears straightforward. The call is to listen in my heart and respond properly to the "word of the Kingdom". It is even appears simpler in conjunction with the first reading. God's plan to draw ...

The first commandment in the Exodus Reading, i.e., "...You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not carve idols for yourselves..." is as relevant in 2007, the 21st century after Christ as it was centuries earlier ...

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 ...

So as to be more available to the gracious invitations offered to us in the liturgy's readings, picture your local church building. Immediately inside the main doors, you notice something new. To the right are the familiar ...

The readings today provide us with directions yet again on how to live the God's teachings. They flow from a search for wisdom and a "prescription" for our behaviors to words of Jesus demonstrating His wisdom.||The first ...

Who is a saint? Most of us respond to this question by thinking of martyrs witnessing publicly to faith by enduring excruciating torture leading to eventual death. Very few Christians will ever have this opportunity.|Today's ...

Although today's gospel reading from Matthew narrates Andrew's calling for the first time, John's gospel brings that calling back to the very beginning of Jesus' public life and that narrative presents us with some remarkable ...