Yesterday we celebrated Ash Wednesday by receiving ashes in the sign of the cross on our foreheads. The gospel asked us to pray, to fast and to be generous but always to do this without the usual positive feedback that we ...

We are in the first four days of Lent. We've just washed the ashes from our foreheads. We have begun a journey that is given shape and direction for us in today's liturgy.|"Today I have set before you life and prosperity, ...

"I am offering you life or death . . . choose life then . . ."|Put in so many words, who wouldn't choose life?|Why was it necessary for Moses to warn the Israelites (and us) not to be "drawn into worshiping other gods"? ...

"I am offering you life or death . . . choose life then .|| Lent is for religious people. Today's readings, as a part of the prologue to the season, are addressed to a religious people _ the Israelites of 3,000-plus years ...

Decisions, Decisions||"Decisions have consequences." That's a bit of wisdom we may have heard somewhere along the line. Moses' address to the people makes the truth of that statement so clear: Staying with the Lord leads ...

St. Ignatius' roommate, at the University of Paris, was the fastest runner on campus, one Francis Xavier. It seems that Francis was on the fast track in other ways as well, and his buddy got into the routine of bugging him ...