Revealing Self

Beginning this Sunday and for the following week, we will follow the journey of Our Savior through betrayal, disaster, and death, to Resurrection and new life. This year we read Mark’s account of Jesus’...

Dying to Self

The Gospel for this fifth Sunday of Lent tells of Jesus’ reflecting upon his own death. Lent is a time for us to reflect on our own death, not so much of passing from...

Yes to God

In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus tell Nicodemus and us that whoever believes in the Son of God will have eternal life, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned because he has...

Moved to Move

This Sunday’s Gospel reading particularly shows the humanity of Jesus. He gets really angry and He starts to overturn the furniture and He throws things. Now, I don’t toss furniture when I get really...

Our Transfiguration

On the second Sunday of Lent, we recall and proclaim the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus, witnessed by Peter, James and John. The three of them undergo a kind of transfiguration themselves. They...

Entering the Desert

We always begin the season of Lent, first Sunday, with Jesus going into the desert, sent there by the Holy Spirit to be tested. This year, we focus on Mark’s account. All of us...

Lepers In Our Midst

In Jesus’ time, persons with any sort of visible skin lesions were considered lepers and were outcasts from society. Imagine yourself during your adolescence when you probably experienced some degree of acne. Or imagine...

Peter’s Mother-in-Law

With all due respect, mothers-in-law have been the brunt of the jester’s comments possibly from the time of the first recorded jokes: “… Now, you take my mother-in-law… please!” or “Behind every successful man,...

Integrity, Authority, Love

Thankfully, the election season has well passed, and the newly elected have taken their offices. Sadly, many are duped by powerful and eloquent speakers whose real agenda is hidden, whose promises are grandiose and...

What Time Is It?

There are a number of words in our language that derive from the Greek word Chronos. There is chronology: the order of happenings; chronometer: what many of us wear on our wrists (a watch); chronicle:...