You Are The Salt Of The Earth

Like soldiers preparing for battle, we need to approach this coming Lenten season with a proper knowledge of our strengths and our weaknesses and review our plan of attack.

The Wisdom of God

Today is also the day of our conversion. We can still decide today to put our hands to the plow. Plowing and sowing demand self-discipline, focus, timeliness and staying in your lane if you expect any reward.

Christ's One Message

Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?

We believe, and we adore, and we love.

What we heard in the first line of today’s first reading, St. Thomas makes clear, suffices to be good theological definition of the virtue of faith. What do we believe but the First Truth, God Himself, but precisely as something as yet unseen?

A Necessary Part of the Christian Life

How much time do I actually give to my friends? How much do I pray for my friends? How much do I really try to see the face of Christ in the face of my friend?

We Gotta Start Somewhere

We need to look upon others with love regardless of their perfections or imperfections. We need to imitate the loving Savior who risked it all in order to capture your soul alone.

The Dumb Ox and the Little Lamb

He entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own Blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

Purity of Heart and Mercy

Priests, as mediators, are called in a special way to live out two virtues: purity of heart and mercy. Christ's interactions with the Pharisees give us a deeper insight.

Imitators of the Saints

We earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of hope until the end, so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises.

Epiphany

The mystery of divine light begun at the Christmas Midnight Mass is here brought to completion, for the message delivered directly to simple Jewish shepherds is today revealed through a star to the educated Magi from the East.

The Light of Divine Favor

Tonight is a night of darkness and silence. If darkness is the utter lack of light, then in that blackness, a lonely beam of light, a single ray of heavenly favor, has no competition. All eyes are fixed on the glory of the Lord.

That We May Imitate What We Worship

The Handmaid of the Lord

In these last days of the Advent season we have a whole succession of astonishing conversations to help us prepare for Christmas: the angel speaking to Joseph in his dream; another angel speaking to Manoah’s wife about the birth of Samson; the Archangel Gabriel appearing to Zachary in the temple to announce the birth of John the Baptist; and then, of course, the same great Archangel appearing to Our Lady in today’s recounting of the Annunciation.