The Cross is a Love Letter from God “The storm ceased and there was great calm. Then Jesus asked them, ‘Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?’” […]

The Trinity: The Unbroken Cycle of God’s Love The Trinity is the unbroken cycle of God’s love; we are part of that cycle. When God made you and me God […]

In this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus says, “I am the good shepherd.” But that’s not the end of the story. He calls us to be good shepherds as well. In preparing […]

“Lord, if you had been here, my brother [and my sister] would not have died.” John 11: 32 I had prayed for James Foley, the American journalist who had been […]

Blindness and the Pool of Siloam This Sunday’s Gospel has Jesus curing a blind man. It’s a wonderful story. The appeal is in the magic, the joy, the miracle that […]

The Woman at the Well This Sunday’s Gospel has Jesus reaching out to a social outcast within a land of social outcasts. The encounter between Jesus and the woman at […]

Angels in the Desert “The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days . . . He was among wild beasts, and […]

Saint Teresa of Avila, the great 16th century spiritual writer and Carmelite mystic, tells us that we are never closer to God than when we’re immersed in the ordinary things […]

November 3, 2014 “You are a temple of God; the spirit of God dwells within you.” Cor 3:16 The Second Vatican Council in the 1960s introduced many changes in the […]