This morning was cloudy and rainy. Everything appeared drab and gray as the light from the sun was blocked by a thick cloud cover. Even the moods of people seemed muted and subdued. Yesterday, in contrast, was a beautiful ...

Just imagine the joy the people of Israel must have experienced when the prophet Isaiah told them that a new day was dawning.  A day when the deaf shall hear and the blind shall see and the tyrant will be gone and the ...

In the selection from St. Luke's gospel for today's liturgy, Jesus' words are addressed to "great crowds" traveling with him. He tells them what it means to be his disciple. Clearly it is not for everyone; discipleship ...

|"The Lord is my light and my salvation."  So rings the psalm for today's daily readings.  It is the song of many a saint.  Whom should I fear?  Is there reason to be afraid?  The psalmist's response is, simply, to place ...

Scripture scholars agree that the multiplication of loaves and fishes in John's gospel is really John's way of reflecting upon Jesus' giving his disciples His Body and His Blood during his final Passover Meal with them. ...

Philippians 2: 12-18; "...work out your salvation with fear and trembling..."|Psalm 27: 1, 4, 13-14 "...One thing I ask of the LORD; this I seek: To dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life..."|Luke 14: 25-33 ...

|Sometimes the readings can be confusing.  However, today's readings hit me right between the eyes.  In Isaiah, the Lord encourages believers through Isaiah.  "And out of the gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall ...

Following Jesus as his disciple is not easy - then or now!||In the gospels Jesus never left his followers with the impression that being his disciple would be easy. He realized that it would involve a radical break with ...

It is not easy to be a follower of Jesus. It wasn't in Jesus' own day, and it isn't today.||Following Jesus for the original disciples meant breaking away from father, mother, wife, children, sisters, brothers -- and all ...

In Matthew's gospel from Sunday, October 27th, we are reminded that the greatest commandment is to love God as well as to love our neighbor as ourselves.|Relationship is being human ... we are not made to be islands unto ...