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,…

Celebrating today’s mass was a missionary priest who grew up in Cleveland and now serves the spiritual and physical needs of new Christians in the Congo. With his work we are reminded that as far-reaching as the world wide web…

What hit me most in listening to today’s readings is the role doubt has played in the lives of believers. In the first reading Moses talks of the great signs through which God made himself known to his people. “Did…

Today is Pentecost Sunday. This day takes on a whole new light in an election year. Amidst all the campaign double-speak, all the customized messages aimed at special interest groups to tell them truths they want to hear, today’s first…

The ending scene from our first reading today is almost comical. There the disciples stand, staring into the sky after Jesus ascended into heaven. Then two angel-like beings stand beside them giving them a verbal kick in the posterior: ‘Why…

It’s appropriate that today’s mass readings are all about love. It’s Mother’s Day: a day that’s founded on love. And as John writes in the second reading, “love is from God.” We can’t escape God. In fact most people who…

The power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit are the themes I took away from today’s mass. In the gospel Jesus says he is the vine and we are the branches. Branches must be pruned every once in a while…