Every religion has a tale about practitioners who “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Buddhism offers the story of the unruly cat. The master ties the cat to a…
One night, the local news announced the lottery jackpot had reached nearly a billion dollars. Sitting with my housemates, we marveled at this astronomical amount. “Think of all the good…
Today’s Gospel is fit for funerals. It promises hope and delivers consolation. Families pray in hope that nothing of the self-giving they experienced in the life of their loved one…
Is the story of Jesus Christ a “cleverly devised myth” (quoting St. Peter in today’s readings)? What’s striking about the Gospel stories is actually how different they are from our…
The Gospel today offers two of the shortest parables in Scripture. Both challenge any tendency we might have to think small. Mustard seeds and yeast are seemingly tiny contributions to…
It’s easy to see the genetic origin of the “Sons of Thunder” nickname given to the brothers in today’s Gospel. The mother of James and John certainly had moxie and…
Teilhard de Chardin said that, “[s]omeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second…
The centerpiece of the Gospel reading today is the story of the healing of the centurion’s servant. It is a marvelous story of Jesus healing by his Word, in response…
My children don’t always get along. I often find myself intervening. It can be a minor infraction, like when my two-year-old daughter takes my four-year-old son’s corn chip. Other times,…
Couples married for any length of time know that love requires compromise, understanding, and sacrifice—loving with all your heart cannot be conditional or halfhearted but must be total and complete.…
