Quote of the Week | June 26, 2023

“Love is never something ready made, something merely ‘given’ to man and woman, it is always at the same time a ‘task’ which they are set. Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only...

I too will boast.

11TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I too will boast. Don’t you find it funny that Paul would condemn those who boast, but then turn around and spend so much time boasting himself? He goes to such great lengths to tell the Corinthians about his credentials as an apostle and...

. . . as we forgive those who trespass against us.

SAINTS JOHN FISHER AND THOMAS MORE, MARTYRS (OPT. MEMORIAL) . . . as we forgive those who trespass against us. Forgive those who trespass against us? That’s hard—especially when someone won’t even acknowledge that they’ve done anything wrong. It’s more natural to want...

. . . your heavenly Father.

SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGA, RELIGIOUS (MEMORIAL) . . . your heavenly Father. We know from the Gospels that at Jesus’ baptism, God the Father identified him as his “beloved Son” (Matthew 3:17). And because Jesus is God’s Son, he can call almighty God “Father.” But early in...

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