Readings: Jon 3:1-5,10; Ps 25; 1Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 ------------------ One theme present in today’s readings is time, or perhaps more...

The following are a brief reflection on the day's readings offered during Eucharistic Adoration after Mass.  ________________ Readings: ...

Often  enough, people don’t want to hear the truth, especially when it’s stark and perhaps a bit frightening, the kind of truth that denies ...

Merry Christmas! Our Redeemer is born!  But today, I can also offer you another greeting: Happy St. Stephen’s Day! For us deacons, today i...

Readings Is 11:1-10 ; Ps 72 ; Lk 10:21-24 ___________________________  Whenever I read today’s Gospel passage from Luke, I realize how ...

Readings: Dn 5:1-28 ; Dn 3; Luke 21.12-19 ______________________  If the gospel message is good news, then why do so many oppose it with...

Readings: Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Ps 128; 1 Thes 5:1-6; Mt 25:14-30 ___________________________ When I was a boy, my dad would "r...

Readings: Rv 7:2-4, 9-1; Ps 24; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12 _____________________ Good evening, all you saints in training! " Who are the...

The other day, in a TV news discussion addressing the radicalization of so many students in our colleges and universities, a member of the U...

Confronted by all the hatred and stupidity evident in both our world and our country, I try to view it all from an eternal or more comprehen...

Readings: Is 45: 1,4-6; Ps 96; 1 Thes 1:1-5; Mt 22:15-21 __________________ I have a coin at home, a Roman denarius. An archaeologist frie...