The last line of today’s gospel says a lot about the Christian faith: “Till this moment they had still not understood the scripture, that He must rise from the dead.” Even His most fervent followers had a hard time grasping…
Our Savior rode into His kingdom on a donkey, not as a King but as a Slave. But He didn’t hide his true identity which also happened to be His mission–to save our souls by freeing us to be slaves…
In today’s gospel Jesus show Himself to be the ideal of bravery and wisdom. Every saint who followed Jesus had that ideal branded into their soul and were willing to lay down their life so Jesus’ teachings may live. His…
In today’s gospel we hear of people who hide from the light and those who are drawn to it: “though the light has come into the world people have preferred darkness to the light because their deeds were evil. And…
Today’s first reading had bracketed text. You know when you see brackets in a reading the editors of that missal you’re reading consider the text within them either extraneous or embarrassing to modern audiences. The brackets in today’s case surrounded…
I may come off sounding a bit heretical here, but I have an alternative take on today’s first and gospel readings. The first reading was about God’s test of Abraham. The common teaching is that God wanted to test Abraham’s…
It’s fitting that the readings on this first Sunday of Lent are about spritual awakenings. In the first reading the Holy Spirit bursts through the flood waters via the souls of Noah and his family. This was the spark of…
I could relate tothe paralytic in today’s Gospel reading. I attended mass today with my left ankle in a cast–having fractured it in a slipping-while-jogging incident the previous Monday. Why bother going to mass so soon after such an injury–and…
Today’s first reading from Leviticus is another of those downers when not read in context with the second reading and the gospel. Here’s a poor soul with leprosy who’s told to warn people that he’s unclean. The point of all…
Thank God for the second reading and the gospel reading at today’s mass. The first reading from Job was a real bummer. If that’s all we would have had to chew on for the rest of our day (Job’s tale…