"Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy." | These words of Abraham Heschel may seem to some an exaggeration. Yet today's readings echo this truth and present a crucial perspective for entering this new year.|John's ...

|What's our best measure of success? Our faith. The victor is the one who believes in Jesus. Jesus was actually born. He is our savior by blood through his birth in human form and by his death. Jesus is fully human, born ...

|The feast of Corpus Christi is one of those special celebrations, like the feast of the Trinity that follow the Easter Season and Pentecost in the liturgical calendar. The feast of Corpus Christi, (literally, the body of ...

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said, "Does not your teacher pay the temple tax?" Matt. 17:24||Sometimes Jesus' teaching revolves around practical common sense. In today's ...

There are several things in this first reading we probably don't want to hear. God is reminding the Israelites that everything they have actually belongs to God. The people have the use of them, but in the end they are ...

Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest. Mark 10:43 The Son of Man has not come to be served but to serve -- to give his life in ransom for the many. Mark 10:45|I used to be fairly surprised by the ...

PRE-PRAYERING||We show our appreciation for musical and dramatic renditions by enthusiastic applause which can go on just a certain length of time. Who decides when the applause should begin to die down and cease? We all ...

In the times of great persecutions of the early Church, there were so many martyrs that it was impossible to commemorate each one on an individual day. Eventually, when the Church was given an old Roman temple to "All the ...

|Even those of us who are not Biblical scholars likely know the story from today's Gospel, in which a man with Leprosy begs Jesus to make him clean. "Lord, if you wish…."… and of course, our Lord graced the man with a cure. ...

In this brief post Epiphany time, which concludes the Christmas season, the Church is eager to have us meditate on the ways that God has disclosed the Divine Self (and the Divine Intention for salvation) within the human ...