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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany derives from the Greek word (epiphaneia), which means a manifestation, becoming strikingly apparent. In our modern world, it seems that every year new stars appear:...