|Today we hear about waiting, something we don't often hear or like to hear in our fast-paced, twenty-first century lives.  We are so used to instant gratification today in our communication with family and friends, in the ...

The theme of readiness in the Gospels may produce various reactions in persons. For some, unfortunately, it might bring to mind death and judgment at the hands of a seemingly harsh and punishing God. It may also signal the ...

|Jesus meets us in the chaos and calls us to the calm. |I recently watched a troubling and eye-opening documentary titled Blackfish. It tells the heartbreaking story of the troubling effects captivity can have on the ...

|When I first read today’s readings I recalled the prior dialogue in Chapter 7, where Jesus admonished us to not judge, and to not be concerned about the splinter in our brother’s eye when we had a wooden beam in our own. ...

"Jesus said to his disciples: Gird your loins and light your lamps"||'Gird your loins' is a biblical term and one I didn't get. So I asked a priest... he said it had something to do with eating light...like during Passover ...

The glory of the Lord will dwell in our land. |"At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." (Matt 27:51) The tearing of the temple curtain at the moment of Christ's death is one of my ...

"Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at the table, and proceed to wait on them." ||This verse from the reading in Luke struck me as I read through the readings for the day. It contrasts with the ...

Where do we find the glory of God? In an age driven by technology, instant communication, massive search engines and all the gadgets we dexterously use to the point of distraction, I ask, are we losing a sense of the ...

Ezekiel lived much of his life away from home. He was one of the young men taken off to Babylon in the first wave of Babylon's subjugation and destruction of Israel. The city of Jerusalem fell to the Babylonian army in 587 ...

In the last few weeks many of us have attended weddings, and so today's Gospel by Matthew brings us to something fresh in our memories. "Can the wedding guests mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them?" asks Jesus in ...