Leave your gift there at the altar

SAINT POLYCARP, BISHOP AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother. Jesus wasn’t talking here to people who lived across the street from the Temple. He was talking to people living in Galilee. So for...

Upon this rock I will build my Church

THE CHAIR OF SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE (FEAST) Upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.  Did you know that there is a physical chair of St. Peter located in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican? Tradition holds...

The people of Nineveh believed God.

ST. PETER DAMIAN, BISHOP AND DOCTOR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) The people of Nineveh believed God. Something of a communal gut check happens when a major event like a natural disaster or a terrorist attack suddenly brings life into focus. Everyone affected takes stock of...

Giving seed to the one who sows

1ST WEEK OF LENT Giving seed to the one who sows . . .  John didn’t grow up in a religious household. But he was drawn to the Catholic faith during his college years and began attending Mass. He went through RCIA and married a committed Catholic woman, and together...

Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy.

1ST WEEK OF LENT Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy. When we hear this commandment, two questions come to mind: What does it mean to be holy? And how are we supposed to get there? The Hebrew word for “holy” is kodesh, which means to be “set apart.” When God...

Why do we fast, and you do not see it?

FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Why do we fast, and you do not see it? The people of Jerusalem were fasting, and they wanted God to take notice! And he did, but not in the way they had expected. Instead of being pleased with their self-denial, he spoke through the prophet...

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