I love the beginning of the first reading when Paul reminds the young Christian Church, “…if you hold fast to the word I preached”. We, as a Christian Church today, should also hold fast to the Gospel. But we need to ask ourselves, “Why do we believe the Gospel?” And...

One day, a little boy, dirty from playing in the mud, comes home and asks his mother, "Who am I, Mom?" The mother thinking that her son perhaps wants to play a game says, "I don't know! Who are you?" "WOW!" the boy shouts excitedly and says, "Our neighbor is right! He...

Today’s feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the text from the Gospel passage, “for God so loved the world that He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but have eternal life,” puts us at the very center of our life of faith...

The Self-Improvement industry is going strong. Books and blogs abound proclaiming to share secrets about how to manage time for ultimate efficiency, eat a more healthy diet, find the best formula for exercise, remove the clutter, lose weight, find a soul mate, invest...

The second century Christian martyr St. Ireneus coined a phrase that has resounded throughout the centuries, "The glory of God is the person fully alive." The challenge of becoming "fully alive" for most of us is putting our gifts at the service of our neighbor –...

While patrolling the streets a police officer sees two men fighting and a little boy standing alongside them crying, "Dad..., Dad...!" The officer pulls the two men apart and, turning to the boy, asks, "Which one is your father, boy?" Rubbing tears from his eyes, the...

On this memorial of Saint Ambrose, let us pray for the leaders of our Church, especially the bishops. We pray that they may lead us in a Christ-like example of trusting in the Lord in our daily lives during this Advent season and always. Today is the end of the first...

Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Even though these two great saints of the early church died on different days, in different years and in different ways why do we celebrate their feast together? Some people jokingly would say that because...

In the year 1263 a priest from Prague was on his way to Rome making a pilgrimage asking God for help to strengthen his faith since he was having doubts about his vocation. Along the way he stopped in Bolsena 70 miles north of Rome. While celebrating Mass there, as he...

There is an old story about a gypsy man. A gypsy man goes into a village that has a little fountain in the middle of the square. And he’s drinking heartily from the water. And there’s a little boy watching him because, after he drinks, he keeps looking into the water...