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Back to SearchPeter 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, 7 months 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
The Vineyard
In this striking parable of the vineyard, Jesus lays out both God's vision for the world as well as his plan of redemption. The Lord wants us to be f…
20 years, 9 months ago
Jesus the Slave
Our second reading, from Paul's letter to the Philippians, contains one of the oldest texts in the tradition, a "hymn" that Paul received and adapted…
20 years, 9 months ago
The Generous Landowner
The parable that Jesus tells in our Gospel for today is one of his most disturbing and confounding. Giving the same wage to those who worked for one …
20 years, 9 months ago
Seventy Times Seven Times
Our capacity to forgive others is tightly linked to our realization that we have been forgiven by God. When we try to justify an ethic of radical for…
20 years, 9 months ago