Ultimate Sign of Hope

I guess I never really appreciated how much of a gift faith really is until I read something about an atheist who said he would be willing to believe in God only if he could see just one single piece… Read More

Kindness of Friends

This week’s Gospel presents us with two startling occurrences. The obvious one is the healing of the paralytic, a miracle that goes beyond just the physical dimension: “That you may know that the Son of man has authority to forgive… Read More

Repent and Come After Me

The Gospel passage wherein Our Lord calls Peter, Andrew, James and John never ceases to amaze me.
Mark tells us in just a few simple lines about an invitation (“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”)… Read More

Welcoming Jesus as Mary Did

Scripture says, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns’” (Is 52:7).
Rightly do these words… Read More

Knowing the Ending

I love to read novels. There are times, however, when I give in to the temptation to leaf ahead and see what happens next. Naturally, I run the risk of discovering some key plot twist, i.e. the death of a… Read More

Rules of Love

I once read a “Frank and Ernest” comic strip featuring Moses presenting the Ten Commandments to the Israelites. Someone asks him a question and he says he will go and ask God for the answer. Up the mountain he goes;… Read More

Our Stubborn Selves and Our Patient Father

One of the first things to come to mind when reflecting on this week’s Gospel reading is the book entitled, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I have not read it, so I am not sure what it says.… Read More

It’s All About the Cross and the Resurrection

People seem to like it when Our Lord says things like, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” or, “Judge not.” It seems they are taken to mean Catholics have no business speaking out against sin and… Read More

A Little Goes a Long Way

God has a rather funny way of showing us that a little can go a long way.
A few days before writing this, I was eating dinner with some parishioners and discussing last-minute details regarding World Youth Day. I left… Read More

Jesus, the Matchmaker

There has been at least one occasion in my life when I successfully played the matchmaker. A few years before I was ordained, I introduced one of my housemates to a girl I knew from college. They went on to… Read More

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