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Back to SearchRemaining Attentive to the Lord
The first reading for this Sunday is taken from the Old Testament Book of Kings. In this reading we are introduced to the Prophet Elijah, who is near…
16 years, 9 months ago
A New Shepherd; A New Kingdom
We should never seek our final security in the things that worldly rulers and kings can provide. It is only through the shepherding of Christ that we…
16 years, 9 months ago
The Way of the Prophet
If you walk the path of the prophet, you will abandon your own "career" and learn to follow the promptings of the Spirit. Also, you will be opposed. …
16 years, 10 months ago
Corpus Christi
The Eucharist is the holy meal that God wants to share with his people. It is also the sacrifice that makes that meal possible in the midst of a fall…
16 years, 11 months ago
The Center of Our Faith
The Trinity is not simply a theological connundrum for scholars to fuss about. It stands at the very heart of our faith, since it expresses the fact …
16 years, 11 months ago
Feast of the Ascension
The Ascension of the Lord empowers the Church to fulfill its messianic mission: to gather the nations of the world into a relationship with the God o…
16 years, 11 months ago
The Vine and the Branches
The image of the vine and the branches indicates that our relationship with Christ is greater than that of merely a teacher to his students. Instead,…
17 years ago
Resurrection and Metanoia
The readings for today effect a correlation between the resurrection of Jesus and conversion. The biblical word for conversion is "metanoia" which ha…
17 years ago
Resurrection and the Love of This World
From the time of Marx, Feuerbach and Freud, we've heard the critique that religion is a wish-fulfilling fantasy, a game of "pie in the sky when you d…
17 years ago
The Resurrection of Jesus is Not a Myth
There are some debunkers of religion around today who want us to believe that the story of the resurrection is just another iteration of the myth of …
17 years, 1 month ago