Mary’s heart was broken. The apostles were in hiding. A guard stood near the tomb. The darkness of night surrendered unto the breaking dawn, and red rays pierced through the ancient sky. Dawn brought forth that ancient morning when time stopped and human history was transformed by God Himself as He reached down into the… Continue Reading »
On Palm Sunday we celebrate the entrance of Jesus into the City of Jerusalem. He knows and we know today that this final passage into Jerusalem is a symbol for His final entrance into what will unfold to become the Passion of Jesus Christ. We look back with great clarity. Yet! Underneath all that intellectual… Continue Reading »
You are a sinner and so am I and so is every single human being. We are a broken and imperfect race of various peoples. Our one common thread is our own humanity. Do you even care about people whom you know not; people who certainly share in your own humanity? Do you truly care… Continue Reading »
Luke’s well renown and much treasured story of The Prodigal Son provides an ancient truth which hits dead center to the way modern societies approach life. In America we as a society are bombarded all day with messages that tell us we must have this or that, and we must go here or there, or… Continue Reading »
“This is the day our Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.” These are ancient words which live on in countless hearts and minds. All too often, we “know” these words but we forget them and the basic Truth they succinctly express. At your moment of birth, God breathed life into you. God… Continue Reading »
“Then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my chosen Son; listen to him.” These Gospel words in Luke 28b-36 are jewels for greater faith. They enable us to think about that precise moment, that holy hour when in human history God spoke aloud. There are only a few places in Holy… Continue Reading »
During this Season of Lent, we hear the Holy Word about Jesus spending time in silence, prayer, soul searching and listening to the will of His Father. The emptiness of the desert can be seen as being a physical symbol for the spiritual emptiness, sense of void, even the spiritual poverty so often discovered within… Continue Reading »
“For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation” (Ps62:1) This LENT may we be people of faith whose hearts are on fire as we encounter our Lord and as we wait in silence knowing our Lord is with us. LENT is the season of the liturgical year when we commit… Continue Reading »
The goodness of the Lord rests within you. Your own life is already a holy life, a sacred life and a precious life. It is precisely because God has chosen to create you in his image and likeness. Our Lord breathed life into you in that most sacred and precious moment of your entire life.… Continue Reading »
Read these sacred words which begin today’s Gospel reading from Luke 6:27-38: “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the… Continue Reading »
