If anyone wishes to come after me, let that one deny one’s self and take up one’s cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save one’s life will lose it. But whoever loses one’s life for my sake will find it. For what does it profit one if one gains the whole world but…[read more]
And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Mark 9: 2-3 The Transfiguration of Jesus is revelation and invitation. It is a revelation to the disciples of the true identity of Jesus and so, by extension, the true identity of each of…[read more]
O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish. Matthew 15: 28 The encounter of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman in today’s gospel draws us into the difficult and vital question of interfaith and inter-religious dialogue. Matthew’s gospel makes clear that Jesus has been sent, first, to the children…[read more]
Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth. Numbers 12: 3 Today’s feast of St. John Vianney and the reading from the Book of Numbers invite a reflection on the inner struggle between the peace of humble self-awareness and the anxiety of envious comparison. The reading from Numbers…[read more]
I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;…[read more]
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”…[read more]
But he said in reply to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Matthew 12: 48-50…[read more]
An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Matthew 12: 39 Those who ask yet another sign of Jesus are in bad faith because they refuse the compelling and clear evidence before them. There is a lack of sincerity and humility…[read more]
Moses, hearing the voice of the Lord from the burning bush, said to him, “When I go to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?” God replied, “I am who…[read more]
I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Matthew 11:25 Academia is among the most competitive of environments. So often after a lecture or reading, the questions from those attending will not…[read more]
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