A few years ago one of my younger nephews was traveling with his siblings and their mother. While pulling out of a drive-in restaurant, with French fries on his lap, a hamburger in one hand and a malt in the other, he asked ...

On this mountain the Lord.... provides a rich feast for all peoples, destroys the veil, the web, death itself, wipes away the tears from all faces, removes the reproach of his people, and saves them.|The hand of the Lord ...

Gracious God help us to see with the eyes of Jesus so that we can always find God in others.|Today's exceptionally long Gospel is trying to open our eyes. Where are our blind spots?   Do we have certain situations, like ...

The two readings in today's liturgy might be episodes of a video series entitled "Lies and Deceptions."  The two are short stories that represent reprehensible behavior on the part of people who are up to no good like the ...

Ezekiel found himself in a time of dire circumstances.  Under the cruel monarch Nebuchadnezzar,  he and his fellow countrymen had been forcefully taken from their homes in Israel to captivity in Babylon.  Ezekiel's world ...

In today's readings, the theme of invitation draws us into the freedom that Jesus offers us.|The first reading from Isaiah promises the beleaguered people of Israel that not only will their lives be filled with food and ...

We have all heard the age-old expressions, "if we all just chip in a little," or "many hands make for light work," and we know the intended results thereof. In today's digital world there is even a name for this – "crowd ...

PRE-PRAYERING || Young men who are making formal application for entrance into the Jesuits are interviewed by four different members of the Society. One such Jesuit interviewing me so many years ago asked if I thought I ...

GOD'S MERCY|In Daniel we see how astutely Daniel questions the two church elders to see if they are lying about Susanna. They were. Susanna did not lie, tell a falsehood, nor lie down for the elders. She was innocent. She ...

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 ...