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Back to SearchWisdom's Meal
Today's first reading personifies Wisdom as a woman who invites people to a feast, lavishly offering food and wine. In today's Psalm, we echo that in…
10 years, 4 months ago
Spiritual Food
In our first reading today, Elijah is dejected and requests that the Lord take his life. But an angel touches him and orders him to get up and eat. S…
10 years, 5 months ago
Bread of Life
Episode 1
This week, the Church’s Gospel is again taken from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. The principle concern of this Gospel is to provide testim…
10 years, 5 months ago
The Mystery of the Mass
The sixth chapter of John's Gospel, from which we will be reading these next several weeks, is a sustained meditation on the meaning of the Mass and …
10 years, 5 months ago
Looking for a Shepherd
Episode 1
In today's first reading, God announces that he himself will shepherd his people. Yet a few sentences later, he suggests that he will raise up a righ…
10 years, 5 months ago
Summed Up in Christ
For many people in the West, liberty seems to trump everything. We avatars of the egodrama, we worshippers at the altar of freedom, say that our choi…
10 years, 6 months ago
The Mission of the Prophet
Episode 1
This week's Scriptures illuminate the identity and mission of a prophet—a calling that belongs to all the baptized by virtue of our Baptism. God appo…
10 years, 6 months ago
God Did Not Make Death
The Book of Wisdom offers us the strange assertion that God did not make death, but formed humanity to be imperishable. This revelation directs us to…
10 years, 6 months ago
The Storm at Sea
The story of Jesus calming the storm at sea is an archetypal description of the church down through the ages. We find ourselves in the midst of storm…
10 years, 6 months ago
Walking By Faith and Not By Sight
Sometimes God does things we can't understand. This is where our need to walk by faith and not by sight comes in play. We trust in God's purpose, and…
10 years, 6 months ago