The teaching in this week’s Gospel is about confronting a person when they “sin against you.”

“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it.” Difficult words from our Lord in this weekend’s Gospel.

The excerpt from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans this Sunday has me thinking about the experience of being pleasantly surprised.

Christology is the study of the nature of Christ. Some theologians speak of a “high Christology” and others of a “low Christology.”

Elijah hears God as a tiny whispering sound.

Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans – the part we have this Sunday (chapter 8, versus 35-39) – is one of the most beautiful things Paul ever wrote. What will be able to separate us from the love of Christ?

These are among my favorite parables of our Lord: the treasure buried in the field, the pearl of great price, and the dragnet catching all different types of fish.

Impatience is the ‘common denominator sin.’ Everyone is impatient.

I think one of the points from our first reading from the prophet Isaiah (“Just as from the heavens the rain and the snow come down and do not return there until they have watered the earth…”) is that God makes use of all suffering.

Dear Parishioners, The notion of privilege has been on my heart these several weeks. We are a privileged people. The Catholic Church and all its members are blessed and chosen specifically by God. This isn’t anything new in the tradition. Israel was also a privileged, chosen nation. “For you are a people holy to the LORD, your God; the LORD, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own” (Deuteronomy 7:6). Modern soc