It's a simple enough question: "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?" Jesus supplies a compelling response, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind regain their sight, the lame ...

Today it is cold and gray where I live. There is little that appears to be alive. The trees are stripped bare, all flowers and foliage are thoroughly frozen. Underfoot, what was green grass just a scant few weeks ago, is ...

Rain on the Earth||Living in Omaha, Nebraska, where we are experiencing an unusually cold and snowy beginning to December, the words and images of Isaiah as well as those of today's Responsorial Psalm seem to describe a ...

" ... for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour."|To capture the good news of today's readings, we must look at Luke's gospel verses preceding and following today's reading. In the opening verses of chapter 12, ...

I notice license plates. Not long ago, I saw one on a truck that read, 'PROPER-T'. I couldn't help but chuckle to myself, thinking this driver is in touch with his mortality! Some people spend their lives scratching their ...

"What do you want for Christmas?"||It's a simple question, even a familiar one. So I ask you, "What do you want for Christmas?"|At first you might answer that you would like a particular object, such as a sweater or a ...

"I am the Lord, there is no other." Today's first reading begins with this very uncomplicated assertion from God, and is repeated several times in case we missed it the first time. Like coming home to a welcoming embrace ...

Advent has only three full weeks this year.  Christmas Eve's being on a Sunday means that the fourth week is only a short few hours.  "So", we say-pray, "Better get with the program." We wish sincerely that we could be ...

Do yourself a favor this Advent season and just sit and savor today's first reading.  The more times I read it, the richer it became.  It pointed me in so many different directions.  But no matter which path I followed, ...

One of the results of growing older and striving to live by faith is that my views of God have changed. As a child, God was like my father in the flesh – quiet, aloof, seemingly uninterested in my day-to-day life, and quite ...