Not a Spook: An Opportunity for Discovery
Readings for April 19, 2015: Third Sunday of Easter In the heyday of the Roman Empire, the corruption of the times caused a wave of dissatisfaction to arise. …
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Romance Has No Reason
I don’t believe the cultural attack on marriage is an accident. While we are making progress as a culture in some areas like respect for unborn life, there…
From Doubt to Faith: The Lesson of Thomas
Readings for April 12, 2015: Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy We don’t know where Thomas was. All we know is that he missed it. All…
Making Sense of Institutional Evangelization
A lot of “New Evangelization” talk gravitates towards questions of how to re-evangelized those who may be baptized but not practicing, those in our neighborhoods who’ve never even…
Roll the Stone Away!
Readings for April 6, 2015: Easter Sunday The serpent’s bite was a deadly one. The venom had worked its way deep into the heart of the entire human…
Jesus I Trust In You
Today is Holy Saturday, a day of silence a day of waiting, a day of trusting. This is the day we remember how Christ trusted in the promise…
The Eucharist: The Body of Christ?: Reflection for Holy Thursday
Readings for April 2, 2015: Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper On Holy Thursday, the night before he died, the Lord Jesus made some startling changes in the…
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion: The Sunday with a Split Personality
Readings for March 29, 2015: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion We now come to the Sunday with a split personality. It starts with an upbeat gospel recounting…
The Look
56 Then a maid, seeing him as he sat in the light and gazing at him, said, “This man also was with him.” 57 But he denied it, saying, “Woman,…
Fightin’ Words
Isn’t it remarkable: the occasions that Jesus’ own people want to kill him follow instances when He quotes Scripture couplets to them? Of course it’s remarkable; let’s look at three…