1 Kgs 17:10-16 / Heb 9:24-28 / Mk 12:38-44

For those of us who read the newspapers and watch the nightly news, bad news is no novelty.  We get it all the time.  But once in a while something happens that…

Rom 15:14-21 / Lk 16:1-8

In the very first sentence of today’s epistle, St. Paul gives us a glimpse at one of the qualities that made him such a good man and such a powerful bearer of God’s Good News. It…

Rom 14:7-12 / Lk 15:1-10

One of the great strengths of our society in the United States is the broad range of freedoms that are guaranteed by our Constitution and the freedom of spirit that goes along with them. But, as…

Rom 13:8-10 / Lk 14:25-33

As long as any of us have been reading the newspapers, they’ve been bringing us bad news about divorces, troubled children, failing businesses, collapsing buildings, and imploding enterprises of all sorts, here and everywhere around the…

Rom 12:5-16 / Lk 14:15-24

For quite a few years now, a familiar theme in more thoughtful publications has been what is described as “the decline of civility.” It touches upon every aspect of life, whether it be on the highway or…

Wis 3:1-9 / Rom 5:-11 / Jn 6:37-40

Sooner or later most of us have the experience of watching a loved one move through his or her final days and then pass from this earth.  It can be a tremendously sad…

Rev 7:2-4,9-14 / 1 Jn 3:1-3 / Mt 5:1-12

As we mark this Feast of All Saints, it’s fascinating to remember where some of the better known saints started out and how their lives proceeded. St. Matthew was a tax collector.…

Rom 9:1-5 / Lk 14:1-6

Jesus was a good Jew and he loved the law, because its purpose was to help people do right by one another and in the process to grow closer to God.  That was the law’s purpose,…

Rom 8:31-39 / Lk 13:31-35

St. Paul poses an interesting and crucial question in today’s Epistle to the Romans. “Who can separate us from the love of Christ?” Nothing should, but lots of things do. There are many people in every…

Eph 2:19-22 / Lk 6:12-16

Alienation is not a new problem. From the beginning of time, people have found themselves feeling like aliens and strangers, sometimes even in their own land and in their own homes. Attila the Hun had a…