Today's Gospel speaks of Jesus healing a man who had the worse disease of that time, leprosy. The man was bold to approach Jesus with his contagious disease. But his faith in Jesus'...
Famed psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Menninger once gave a lecture on mental health, after which someone from the audience asked him what he would suggest that a person do in the event of a...
Homily Thirteenth Sunday Year A Reading 1: The woman recognized the holiness of Elisha and provided for his needs. Unconnected but as a result, she received a gift from God, a child....
"A fish that is alive swims against the flow of water. One that is dead floats down with the water. A true Christian goes against the current of a sinful age. A false...
Thirteenth Sunday Gospel AJesus said, “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; · Jesus'...
Several years ago, a cartoon was making the rounds. It showed a Roman arena packed with spectators. On the floor of the arena was a group of people surrounded by lions. Amid the...
According to a fable, The Two Bags, written by Aesop that: “According to ancient lore, every man is born into the world with two bags suspended from his neck, one in front and one...
"When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen...
'Compassion born in solitude makes us very much aware of our own historicity. We are not called to respond to generalities but to the concrete facts with which we are confronted day after...
Homily Twelfth Sunday Year A Reading 1: The prophet Jeremiah, because he has spoken the word of God to the Chosen People who had been unfaithful to God, is persecuted by them....
“Take care above all things, most honored lady, not to insult God’s boundless loving kindness; you would certainly do this if you mourned as dead one living face to face with God, one...
Twelfth Sunday Gospel AJesus said: "Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. · Jesus tells us not to be...
There was a Baptist pastor during the American Revolution, Peter Miller, who lived in Ephrata, Pennsylvania and enjoyed the friendship of George Washington. In Ephrata also lived Michael Wittman, an evil-minded sort who...
There is a Spanish proverb that says: "To return evil for good is devilish. To return good for good is human. To return good for evil is godlike."Retaliation is a behavior response that...
"Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even t exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love." (St Margaret Mary Alacoque)Today is the Feast of...
The reason we become anemic spiritually is that we are like the other batteries in the Duracel Battery commercial. We don't have the extra energy to go on and on and on. We...
"Our true challenge is to return to the center, to the heart, and to find there the gentle voice that speaks to us and affirms us in a way no human voice ever...
Eleventh Sunday Gospel AAt the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. · The phrase, sheep without a...
"Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak." (St. Augustine)Jesus said the same idea in another way. A good tree is known by the good fruit it bears....
There is this story from an Unknown Source that an old man was asked what had robbed him of joy the most in his lifetime. He replied, “Things that never happened!” Somebody also...
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, “Do not waste your time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great...
Homily Feast of Corpus Christi Year A Reading 1: God prefigured and foreshadowed the gift of his Body and Blood by the lesser gift of manna to feed the Israelites in the...
“I think love – deep human love, does not know death… Real love says, ‘Forever.’ Love will always reach out toward the eternal. Love comes from that place within us where death cannot...
Feast of Corpus Christi Gospel AI am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for...
"Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always...
"Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you." (Ps 116:7) How often do we take time to reflect on the goodness of God to...
“God will give us whatever we want, asking in prayer what we truly want, not what we say we want or even think we want. God listens to the heart, not to the...
"Joy is essential to the spiritual life. Whatever we may think of or say about God, when we are not joyful, our thoughts and words cannot bear fruit. Jesus reveals to us God’s...
