14th Sunday of the Year – I Come to Offer You Peace

Introduction “I have no peace.” It’s a confidence that, at a time of particular discomfort, more…

13th Sunday of the Year – Selling Out for the Lord

During the coming week, Bart Kovacic, Ron McIlveen, Heather Kuhlman, and I will accompany 9 of…

13th Sunday of the Year

PRE-PRAYERING I had the occasion recently to meet face-to-face four different persons of whom I had…

13th Sunday of the Year

A priest was invited by a couple to have a dinner with them together with their…

13th Sunday of the Year – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Can you feel the shift and the rush in today’s gospel passage? Beginning with today’s passage…

13th Sunday of the Year

FOR SOME PEOPLE commitment and freedom seem quite incompatible. Yet today’s readings call for total commitment…

13th Sunday of the Year – The Invitation to Delete the Past

Introduction The image most used in the Torah to express God’s intervention is the fire: “God…

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

In the Jubilee year of Mercy, we contemplate the treasures that Mary, our Mother, cherished in…

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Give Us Your Heart, O Mary!, Immaculate Heart of Mary Yesterday with Catholics across the world,…

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Cardinal Sarah’s Homily for Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary “Through her Fiat, the Word…