This 4th Sunday of Lent we hear one of the most beautiful and moving of Jesus’ parables. (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32) It is a story that touches...

Seven hundred years is a long time. How surprising is it that more than 700 years ago our faith community, our church began a custom...

The Second Sunday of Lent each year takes us to an episode in the Gospels that is referred to as the transfiguration. Peter, James and...

Here we are – Lent again. Here we are – Lent again. Traditionally, it is a time of penance and giving up things, habit and behaviors –...

Ashes, a symbol and sign for the coming Lenten season. This coming Wednesday we will gather and use this sign as a beginning of our...

Jesus does not always seem to make sense, at least so it seems. In chapter 6 of Luke’s Gospel, the story begins with Jesus preaching a...

Life is full of challenges. Just listen to the news on any given day. It seems that our world so often encounters “bad news”. We...

Very Shortly, Ash Wednesday will be upon us (March 5) and we will enter the Lenten Season once more. Lent is all about conversion. It...

Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.... Truly, I tell you, no Prophet is...

Brothers and sisters: Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it...

“They have no wine.” This is the simple comment of the mother of Jesus at a wedding they were attending. In the story as John tells it...

Here we are entering the week of Christmas. It came so fast for most of us, but for our littlest ones it was undoubtedly painfully slow....

The Feast of Christmas is around the corner. Central to this celebration and to our whole Christian faith is that God lives among us. ...

Last weekend, while filling in at a local parish, I noticed something very striking. My hometown has become significantly more...

Listening or watching the news today, we can easily be disappointed with our world and find ourselves depressed with our future. Whether...

Sometimes to know where we are, we must know where we came from. The message and the mission of Jesus is to proclaim the Kingdom, the...

Change is a challenge. It is also universally necessary. Whether we talk personally or communally, we constantly face changes in our...

The Gospels tell many Jesus-stories. They were part of the faith memories of Jesus shared by the earliest Christian communities. In...

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion  of saints . These words and what they express are part of the...

Mark’s Gospel tells a wonderful story of the healing and conversion of Bartimaeus, a blind beggar (Mk.10:46-52).  As much as it is one of...