John tells us that the disciples who abandoned Jesus when He was arrested and taken to the cross were still locked in a room a week after they had seen Him risen from the dead and had appeared to them in that same room.  Jesus had...

Despite all that Jesus had done and everything he had told his friends and followers to expect, Mary of Magdala did not understand the significance of the empty tomb.  Mary, unlike the disciples hiding behind closed doors, summoned up the...

Good Friday, April 15 at 3pm Starting in the church and ending at Brescia University. The march of silence will follow immediately, on our way back to the parish. This event is hosted by our Hispanic...

In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus teaches us that prayer is not so much about what we say to God, but about what we are willing to hear from God.  When we are in true communion with God to discern his will for us He may ask us to do...

Jesus was asked if the Galileans were sinners because they were slaughtered by Roman soldiers as they sacrificed in the temple.  Jesus knew people believed a violent or tragic death was a sign of God’s punishment for a sinful...

The Transfiguration occurred just after Jesus predicted his suffering and death and explained the conditions of discipleship.  When Peter observed Jesus change in appearance and conversing with Moses, the Great Law Giver, and Elijah,...

Now there’s a scary thought. Jesus, the Word made Flesh, Son of God and Son of Mary, is tempted by the devil - not just once, but again and again.  How was Jesus really tempted? Turn stones into bread.  That is a temptation to acquire...

In the time of Jesus large cities like Jerusalem and some smaller towns had markets where people could go to vendors who brought their produce, fish and meats to a stall to be sold.  Typically, each stall sold one item, such as fruits,...

Is there someone your really don't like?  Or is there someone you feel you hate.  Hopefully you have come to realize that such feelings about people are because of something we believe they did to us, or something they should have done...

Fishing is a difficult and dangerous way to make a living. The profits sometimes do not justify the perspiration and the peril. And it is highly unlikely that a man who has spent his life fishing on a small, pear shaped sea in Galilee...