Today’s readings tell us what our Dads have always told us: “Don’t be stupid!” Only the Book of Wisdom slaps us in the head with a more tender swipe: “Wisdom proclaimed from the heights above the city, ‘Let the simple come this way.’…
We’ve all felt like Elija in today’s first reading. For me this week seemed like that, when all the pettiness and office politics finally got to me and I felt like finding a secluded place and surrendering. “He himself went…
I was wrong when I wrote last week that we were living in a drought. It’s actually a famine. Truth and character are in short supply in our culture. But that condition is really no different from Moses’ time when…
Drought’s effect on our food supplies is making all the headlines lately, but there’s another drought that’s just as widespread in the world but is being ignored. Spiritual drought is evident to anyone who attends Sunday mass on a regular…
Today’s readings are dedicated to the shepherds who guide God’s flock. The first reading is more cautionary to those who would scatter and divide that flock. “You have scattered my flock, you have driven them away and have not taken…
Today’s readings carried on with last week’s theme of what it means to be a prophet. In the first reading Amos is told to take his preaching elsewhere. Again we’re reading about a prophet, like Jesus, who wasn’t appreciated in…
esus was amazed in both last week’s and this week’s gospels, but for two completely different reasons. Last week’s showed him as being amazed at the great faith of a sickly woman who touched his robe in order to be…
Today’s Gospel from Mark should be bookmarked by anyone who feels God doesn’t hear their prayers. It offers a double-whammy of faith’s power to heal battered souls. It starts with a man who has such faith in Jesus as the…
We’re taught from childhood that bragging is wrong. Yet today’s Psalm is as bold as Muhammad Ali saying how pretty he was. Today we hear how wonderfully made we are. “For so many marvels I thank you; a wonder am…
Today’s readings are a lesson for fathers on Father’s Day. They remind us of the role we play in God’s plan. We may be big and mighty like a great cedar, but, as shown in the first reading from Ezekiel,…