At once they left their nets and followed him.

SAINT ANDREW, APOSTLE (FEAST) At once they left their nets and followed him.  What is most striking about today’s Gospel is the immediacy with which Simon and Andrew left their nets—along with their livelihood and families—to follow Jesus. On this feast of St. Andrew,...

A shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse.

1ST WEEK OF ADVENT A shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse.  The branches of late fall and winter look barren and lifeless, don’t they? The “stump of Jesse”—the line of Judah’s kings—must have looked just as dead to the people of Isaiah’s time. Moral decay and...

In no one in Israel have I found such faith.

1ST WEEK OF ADVENT In no one in Israel have I found such faith.  The Roman centurion in today’s Gospel reading was a practical man. He had heard about Jesus’ miracles and healings, so he knew where to go when his servant was ill. He even trusted that Jesus didn’t have...

They will look upon his face.

COMMON OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY They will look upon his face.  We have just spent the past week reading descriptions in Luke’s Gospel of what people call “the end times.” Wars, persecution, natural disasters—it’s a fearful prospect. But today’s reading from the Book...

Salvation, glory, and might belong to our God.

ST. ANDREW DUNG-LAC AND COMPANIONS (OR THANKSGIVING DAY USA) Salvation, glory, and might belong to our God. If you have spent some time studying the Old Testament prophets, you probably know that their role was less about telling the future and more about being a...

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