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For the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Church asks us to juxtapose stories of David and Mary. David decides that he wants to build a temple for the Lor…
20 years ago
To Heal the Brokenhearted
Our first reading for this Sunday is an especially sacred one in the Christian tradition, for it was precisely this passage from Isaiah that Jesus ch…
20 years, 1 month ago
The Gospel of Jesus
In the very first line of his Gospel, St. Mark tells us that he is going to share with us Good News, Glad Tidings, about Jesus, the Son of God. In ma…
20 years, 1 month ago
O How We Need a Savior
Lent is, of course, a penitential season, but Advent is as well. We get in touch with our sinfulness during Advent precisely because we want to prepa…
20 years, 1 month ago
Peter Maurin and Matthew 25
Peter Maurin, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, took Jesus' words in our Gospel for today with consummate seriousness. He felt that the…
20 years, 1 month ago
Burying the Talents
All of us believers have been entrusted with a treasure: our faith. What do we do with this treasure while we await the return of the Lord? We must m…
20 years, 2 months ago
The Wise and Foolish Virgins
How do we wait? That is the question addressed by Jesus' parable for today. While we wait for the second coming of the Lord, we should keep our lamps…
20 years, 2 months ago
The Trouble With Religion
At its best, religion orients our lives to God and moves us away from the terrible preoccupation with our own egos. But at its worst, religion reinfo…
20 years, 2 months ago
The Greatest Commandment
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind--and your neighbor as yourself." This is the way that Jesus s…
20 years, 2 months ago
The Wedding Banquet
God the Father has prepared a wedding banquet for his Son, and we are all invited. That is the poetic summary of salvation that can be found in the p…
20 years, 3 months ago