During these liturgical days after Easter, we have been walking slowly and meditatively through John's account of the graduation talk Jesus gave to His disciples the night of His arrest.  The Gospel for today's Eucharistic ...

Those who have never been told of him shall see,|and those who have never heard of him shall understand|Today's first reading is a powerful reminder to spread the Gospel of Christ not to the converted, but to those who ...

Every year on March twenty-fifth, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Jesus in the womb of the sinless young woman of Nazareth, Mary.  Every year on today's  date, the Catholic Church celebrates its ...

Come Back to Life "You will grieve, but your grief will become joy." (John 16: 20) "You who were lost have now been found."  Paul rammed into the Spirit and his old convictions crumbled.  With God's help, he was freed from ...

Today us the celebration of all the Saints and Blessed of the Society of Jesus. Many Jesuits also commemorate today those brothers in Christ who are saints with a small s, those who lived out their Jesuit and Christian ...

The phrase that caught my attention from today’s readings is “but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, Be holy because I am holy.” ||This phrase started a ...

One of the links between the first reading and the Gospel is the concept of stewardship. The apostle Paul does not use that word in the passage from Romans but the idea is certainly there. A steward is a manager of another ...

|Just a few days ago Pope Francis, in his daily homily, preached about the same pattern we can see stretched between the first and last readings on today's feast of the Immaculate Conception. He preached about: fear and ...

You have a problem. Here’s the situation: You’re God – not a remote, watchmaker creator God, but a God who cares deeply about creation, and especially about that most pesky and rambunctious of all your creatures – humanity. ...

Today’s psalm sings for me, in more ways than one. The obvious reason is that it has been recast as Responsorial Psalm music by several authors, perhaps most familiarly by David Haas and Marty Haugen. We hear its uplifting ...