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Back to SearchWhere Do You Put Your Faith
The readings for this weekend pose a blunt question: whom, finally, do you trust? "Trust" is meant here in an absolute sense. Where do you base your …
19 years, 3 months ago
What is Love?
In the thirteenth chapter of his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul sings a hymn to love. He tells us that love is "patient, gentle, kind, not…
19 years, 3 months ago
The Paradox of Walls
Nehemiah, the 5th century governor of Judea, has an important spiritual lesson for us today. Nehemiah led the project of re-building the walls of Jer…
19 years, 3 months ago
The Task of the Church
As we enter into ordinary time, we reflect with St. Paul on the ordinary task of the church: the discernment and exercise of the gifts of the Holy Sp…
19 years, 3 months ago
Biblical Family Values
There are family values in the Bible, but they might not be the ones you'd expect. The Biblical authors--both Old Testament and New--put a stress, no…
19 years, 4 months ago
The Inexhaustibly Fascinating Figure of Mary
On the final Sunday of Advent, the Church invites us to consider the inexhaustibly fascinating figure of Mary. The Mother of God is a figure of faith…
19 years, 4 months ago
What Should We Do?
Our Gospel for today centers around a question that is bracing in its directness and simplicity. A group of people come to the Baptist and ask "what …
19 years, 4 months ago
Return Home
In our first reading for this week, we hear the prophet Baruch predicting the return of the children of Israel to Zion. God will level the mountains …
19 years, 5 months ago
The Second Coming
The readings for this first Sunday of Advent focus, not on the historical coming of Jesus at Bethlehem, but rather at his eschatological coming at th…
19 years, 5 months ago
Pilate and Jesus
In the confrontation between Pilate and Jesus we see, according to Benedict XVI, a clash of two visions of politics. Pilate, who cynically dismisses …
19 years, 5 months ago