Jeremiah's oracle rebukes the failed leadership of Israel's and Judah's kings in the image of shepherds who have failed in their role as caretakers of their flocks, a role entailing leading, feeding and protection. The ...

In Mexican tradition there is a saying that people die three deaths.  We experience the first death when our physical bodies die, the second death occurs when our bodies are lowered into the earth out of sight.  The third ...

Behold, the Lord comes to save His people!|The readings for the middle of the first week of Advent are full of joyous anticipation for the coming of the Lord. To symbolize the great times to come, we are led to imagine ...

Everyone has their favorite, and least favorite, scripture passages. Some passages affirm us in the way we feel about our relationship with God, about the way we live out our beliefs. Others make us uncomfortable, challenging ...

Sunday in Ordinary Time Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed PRE-PRAYERING|We have a little saying that when you get a lemon, you make lemonade. This means generally that when something sour or displeasing comes our ...

All Souls Day||And this is the will of the one who sent me that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day.|Today we celebrate All Souls Day.|We celebrate, reverence and ...

I feel very fortunate to have been chosen to write a daily reflection for this day, "All Souls Day." Recently, my wife's aunt passed away from a sudden heart attack. She was only 59. Although she had been having complications ...

"The souls of the just are in the hands of God and no torment shall touch them." Book of Wisdom ||Among the pictures on my refrigerator are the newspaper obit and photo of my lifelong academic/professional mentor and a ...

Every year on the 2nd of Novembers we commemorate "All the Faithful Departed." (All Souls Day) The Liturgy provides for priests who may wish to offer three Masses that day. Many people think that this is an exception made ...

We have all been there. Sitting in church on a weekday at 10:00 a.m. waiting for the funeral of mother taken by cancer who left a husband to care for three small children, or a young relative so full of promise, who died ...