The feast of All Saints teaches us that holiness comes in all sizes and shapes.  The saints are rich and poor, young and old, warriors and peacemakers, hermits and organizers of charities, parents and celibates, scholars and those who...

“I want to see again. I want to see again,” says the blind man to Jesus. It is beautiful story.  It is about the healing of blind man.  The first time I read this story, I said to myself, this is not for us because we are not...

The disciples of Jesus were not immune to temptations for power and prestige.  Despite all that Jesus had taught them and all they had seen him do, they still thought, or hoped, that Jesus had come to establish an earthly kingdom that...

The rich young man who asked Jesus “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” was probably a good person by the standards of his day.  He claimed to have kept all the commandments from his youth.  But he was looking for...

God created a wonderful world in which we human beings do not live in isolation.  He gave us dominion over His world and intended that we choose to share its greatness with one another.  He knew we would find such sharing and true...

Jesus did not come to form an exclusive club.  He did not come to form a social organization that would be very selective about the people allowed to join.  Jesus came to call all who would listen and observe what he did to join him by...

Our Blessed Virgin Mother herself has asked us in her apparitions to pray the rosary daily for the conversion of sinners and of the world!  She who is already in heaven knows what is best for us.  She encouraged us with the rosary...

When Jesus revealed to His disciples the fate he would suffer for completing the work for which He was sent into the world, Peter tried to persuade Him to avoid it.  It is the equivalent of Peter saying to us, “Your faith is enough,...

In the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom is “she.”  Wisdom challenges us to use knowledge to build our house, to grow in understanding of what we know and “forsake foolishness,” which is prudence.  St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches us that...

Imagine that you were among the four hundred people who lived in Nazareth with Joseph, Mary and Jesus.  You have known Jesus since he was a boy learning carpentry and other trades from Joseph and others in the small town, including...