“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.” As we begin Advent to prepare for the birth of Jesus it is a bit...

Jesus used images from everyday life: workers in the fields; the birds in the air; the vineyard; shepherds tending their flocks, that people knew well and understood to teach many truths.  In today's Gospel Jesus uses images about...

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,...