|In the first reading today, Paul is in effect explaining to the Ephesians that all who are believers, Jews and Gentiles alike, are saved and are part of the same spiritual family. In Paul's time, there was anti-Gentile ...

|"Neither is new wine put into old wineskins, otherwise the skins burst, and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed;  but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved." Matthew 9|Today's reading ...

|Turn to me and be safe,|all you ends of the earth,|for I am God; there is no other! - Isaiah 45|"Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?" |"Go and tell John what you have seen and heard:|the blind ...

|The first weeks of Advent are the only time each liturgical year that we focus on the first readings of the day, and the various gospels are complementary to those readings.  On December 17th we begin the second part of ...

"The Christian knows that Christ has been working|in humanity for twenty centuries|and that the person that is converted to Christ|is the new human being that society needs|to organize a world according to God's heart."|- ...

|In the early months of a deepening relationship I was experiencing with a woman many years ago, we found ourselves bumping along the interstate in a UHaul in the Mojave Desert with a load of items we were transporting ...

|This feast is celebrated on the octave day following last Saturday's Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.  As Hopkins would write in another Mary-poem, (The May Magnificat), "Why fasten this upon her with a feasting ...