by Rafał Lar | 18 January 2020 | The homily
The alleluia may serve as the title for today’s Gospel: “The Lord Sent Me to Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor.” Mark tells us that Jesus encountered Levi, the Tax Collector, and asked him to come and eat with him. Since the crowd also included...
by Rafał Lar | 16 January 2020 | The homily
What is “hardening our hearts” if not a willful softening of our resolution to follow Christ? If we read the Bible carefully, as the author of the letter to the Hebrews had, we will see this theme of hardening and resistance appear over...
by Rafał Lar | 15 January 2020 | The homily
Faced with human need, Jesus’ heart is moved to do what he can to alleviate their suffering. He frees those who are possessed by demons and heals those who are sick, including Peter’s mother-in-law As Paul will much later tell his...
by Rafał Lar | 13 January 2020 | The homily
After our time of celebrating the Christmas season, we return to observing Ordinary Time – or, more precisely, “counted time” between now and the beginning of Lent. For the next eight weeks, we will move through the first ten chapters...
by Rafał Lar | 12 January 2020 | The homily
Imagine yourself at a busy airport and, though in most airports one can never hear anything that is being announced, you hear your name. This happened to me once. In our own baptisms, we receive several things. Our name, freedom from...
