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Back to SearchThe Just Shall Live By Faith
In this week's reading the prophet Habbakuk questions the ways of God, quite understandably. The evils throughout the world can be discouraging, but …
12 years, 3 months ago
The Awful Gospel of the Cross
This week's Gospel contains one of the greatest challenges Jesus ever offered to his disciples: "If anyone comes to me without hating his father and …
12 years, 4 months ago
Humility: The Queen of the Virtues
This week's readings focus on the importance of humility. Humility is the foundation for the whole of spirituality. In order to truly pursue truth an…
12 years, 4 months ago
I Have Come to Cast a Fire Upon the Earth
Jesus' words from our Gospel this week inspired the name for my program, Word on Fire. Jesus speaks of the divine judgment that will fall like a clea…
12 years, 4 months ago
Faith and the Reasoning of the Religious Mind
God cannot be analyzed scientifically the way one would study the things of the world, but God can be approached through religious reasoning, or Fait…
12 years, 5 months ago
The Great Yes and The Great No
Very often we find ourselves drawn towards extremes: puritanism or hedonism, idolizing the world or demonizing the world. The proper Catholic balance…
12 years, 5 months ago
Kingdom Prayer
How central is the Lord's Prayer to Christianity! Basically this prayer is about ordering ourselves to God and letting his way of being order all lev…
12 years, 5 months ago
Boasting in the Cross
St. Paul tells us in our second reading that he boasts in the cross of Jesus. To any of his hearers in the first century this would have sounded like…
12 years, 6 months ago
The Sin of David
Today's first reading describes the sin of David with Bathsheba, David's attempts to cover up his crime, and the subsequent punishment for his sin. E…
12 years, 6 months ago
Making Something From Nothing
This week's readings are for the people who feel that they have no hope. Even in the darkest of times, God can create something from nothing and can …
12 years, 7 months ago