Let our sacrifice be in your presence today.

3RD WEEK OF LENT Let our sacrifice be in your presence today.  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (also called Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael) were “in the fire,” but in a sense, so were all the exiles who were living in Babylon at the time (Daniel 3:25). Far from home,...

Quote of the Week | March 4, 2024

“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of our Father’s love for us, and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.” ― Pope John Paul II

No prophet is accepted in his own native place.

SAINT CASIMIR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) No prophet is accepted in his own native place.  Jesus was back in his hometown, with people he had known from boyhood. He probably had memories of childhood games, prayers in the synagogue, and Shabbat celebrations. Given this shared...

He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.

2ND WEEK OF LENT He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. “Dad!” Chris looked up in surprise to find his son, David, calling him from a car window. Five years earlier, Chris had left his family without warning and ended up a poor homeless man living on the...

Did you never read?

2ND WEEK OF LENT Did you never read? Jesus was incredulous. How could these chief priests and elders respond to his parable the way they did? Maybe a Roman soldier would expect the vineyard owner to destroy the tenants who had murdered his servants and his son. But...

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