
Fighting against familiarity
THIS is a common danger against which we have to be duly guarded. It can happen to us anytime, especially when we already have lived a life of piety f...

THIS is a common danger against which we have to be duly guarded. It can happen to us anytime, especially when we already have lived a life of piety f...

MAKE no mistake about this. The little, ordinary things of our daily life can and should be pathways to reach and be with God. This truth of our Chris...

THIS, I believe, is what Christ is telling us when he said, “Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be pla...

WHAT lessons does the parable of the sower (cfr. Mk 4,1-20) teach us? I suppose there are many. But one of them, for sure, is that we have to be prude...

JANUARY 25 is marked liturgically as the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, one of the very dramatic stories in the history of the Church. It remind...

THERE’S that funny part in the gospel where some leading Jews were accusing Christ of being “possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he ...

IN the beginning of the gospel of St. Luke, we are told about how the evangelist took a most careful effort to compile the events of Christ’s words, d...

“No one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is p...

THAT gospel episode of Christ choosing his apostles practically randomly (cfr. Mk 3,13-19) can remind us of many things. First is that we are actually...