"Time flies," even in the liturgical year. We have only thirty-three days until Valentine's Day, so we can save any Christmas candy left over for treating our beloved friends. Ah, but alas, Valentine's Day this year is ...

|The last Sunday we celebrated in Ordinary Time was February twenty-third and then came Lent, followed by Easter Time and then the two special solemnities of the Holy Trinity and The Body and Blood of Jesus. So we are back ...

Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. gave this wonderful talk on Shame. It can be a great help to all of us who seem to devalue ourselves, who tend to not feel that anything about us is good enough, who struggle to accept ourselves and ...

You could wonder a bit about what it means exactly to forgive seventy times seven. Perhaps the 491st time you can seek revenge or refuse mercy. That's okay, I guess, if you are interested in loopholes and being meticulous ...

In our First Reading for this liturgy, we hear of one garden, two newly-minted beings and two trees surrounded by various varieties of flora and fauna.   Ah yes, I forgot about the serpent. How did it slither in without ...

Today there are two sets of Scripture Readings for the Eucharistic Liturgy.  There is the Gospel reading for Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time from Matthew presenting an instruction on prayer and especially ...

It is not merely an assumption that Mary's Assumption into heaven, body and soul is a fact. This doctrine of the Catholic Church is ancient and was held true by the earliest followers in the Church. There was a tomb and a ...

"Excuse me" has several meanings in polite company. It is used when bumping into somebody accidentally. It is employed to interrupt somebody who is speaking and the listener wishes to interject a thought or two. It is ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTORY CONFERENCE|Lent, spring, and the Spiritual life have this in common; each is a tug of war. Spring is tugging at winter to let go. The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are directed at our becoming more ...