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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...