Your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

11TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Your Father who sees in secret will repay you.  Parents know what it’s like to sacrifice in secret. It may start when a pregnant woman avoids certain foods or drinks that may hurt her unborn baby. Then there are the thousands of hours of...

Love your enemies.

11TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Love your enemies.  What does Jesus mean when he tells us to love our enemies? Does he mean that we have to like them or become their friend? Do we have to think of them fondly or send them a Christmas card each year? The short answer is no,...

Offer no resistance to one who is evil.

SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA, PRIEST AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) Offer no resistance to one who is evil.  Ahab and Jezebel—whose story is told in today’s first reading—would have benefited from Jesus’ words here. Their plot to falsely accuse Naboth, have him killed,...

He was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith.

SAINT BARNABAS, APOSTLE (MEMORIAL) He was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith.  Barnabas isn’t exactly a household name, but he was among the most influential apostles in the early Church. As we learn in today’s reading, he helped build up one of the...

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