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Lost and found

In our high-tech society, the Gospel for this fourth Sunday of Easter gives us an agricultural focus in the image of the Good Shepherd.

4/19/18

Fr. Stanley Krempa | For the Catholic Herald

God’s healing mercy

Few things were more repugnant in Jesus’ day than leprosy.

2/7/18

For the Catholic Herald

It’s true what they said about me

The “two disciples” who begin our passage today have just made their eager trek back into Jerusalem to recount the “goings on” of their trek out of Jerusalem on Emmaus Road (a good album name?). As we know (from the verses preceding today’s passage), Jesus joined them and spoke with them for a long part of their journey, all the while either preventing them from recognizing him or deciding not to interrupt their kilometers-long blindness — a blindness resistant to the heart-inflaming truths He expressed about himself in Scripture. Could there possibly be a better Scripture class than this one was?

4/11/18

Fr. Matthew Zuberbueler
Victory in Christ

By Jesus’ humble, loving surrender of His life to the Father while hanging on a tree and by His glorious springing to life three days later, Our Lord conquered mankind’s greatest enemies: sin, Satan and death. Jesus crushed the competition. It was a monstrous defeat. It was a glorious victory. More

4/2/18

Easter Gospel Commentary: The hidden glory

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus is the defining event in our history. In that moment, humanity shared in Christ’s victory over death. The empty tomb on the first Easter allows us to faithfully proclaim that we believe in the “resurrection of the body and life everlasting” each Sunday, a certain truth that fills us with hope as we prepare for sanctification in this life for the next. It is this event that allows us to proclaim confidently with St. Paul, “O death, where is your sting!” (1 Cor 15:55). More

3/28/18

Fr. Robert J. Wagner

Our Eastern Gate

Eight major gates give entry into the holy and ancient city of Jerusalem. The largest is the Eastern Gate, sometimes called the "Beautiful Gate" or the "Golden Gate." It is unique among the historic gates because it is the only one that is completely sealed up, preventing entry. More

3/20/18

Fr. Stanley J. Krempa

The Master is busy now

Jesus didn’t have voice mail or email, of course. More

3/14/18

Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler | For the Catholic Herald

For God so loved the world

We started Lent with the imposition of ashes and the prayerful challenge, “Repent and believe the Good News.”More

3/7/18

Fr. Jack Peterson, YA | For the Catholic Herald

Cleansing our temple

As each of the four Gospel evangelists provide an account of Jesus Christ cleansing the Temple, we recognize that it is a pivotal event in His ministerial life. John’s description provides a dramatic scene, as Jesus made a whip and drove out the money changers, those selling animals to be sacrificed, and even the animals themselves. Amid the turmoil, as Our Lord overturned tables, He shouted that His Father’s house should not be “a house of trade.” More

2/28/18

Fr. Robert Wagner

The call of Mount Moriah

Today's first reading about Abraham sacrificing his only son — the son of promise, the son who would carry the future of Abraham's descendants to be as numerous as the stars or the sands on the seashore — may strike us as brutal, savage, primitive and shocking. A little background may cause the dark clouds that envelop this reading to dissipate. More

2/23/18

Steadfast instead

Jesus invites us to follow Him, to imitate Him. Knowing this helps us to try to do so without becoming overly focused on the fact that there is something very different about Him. He is God. More

2/14/18

Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler | For the Catholic Herald

When Jesus walks away

There is a flurry of activity in the passage we hear this week from the Gospel of Mark. Preceding this Sunday's reading, Jesus cast a demon from a man in the synagogue of Capernaum. Our Gospel begins when Jesus left the synagogue and entered the home of Peter, where, encountering the apostle's mother-in-law with a fever, He healed her.More

2/1/18

Fr. Robert Wagner

Gospel commentary: School days

The role of a "prophet” in scripture was not necessarily one who tells the future but one who speaks God's Word. More

1/25/18

Fr. Stanley J. Krempa

Ready for better fishing

Day after day, night after night, we can do our work with an attention to the words and teaching of Jesus. We know the truth of all that He did and said. Perhaps our call from Him has been given and received. Even so, He continues to find us and He invites us to share His work. More

1/17/18

Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler

Gospel Commentary: ‘Come, and you will see’

The church sets a veritable feast before us today as it feeds us at the table of God’s Word. More

1/10/18

Fr. Jack Peterson, YA | For the Catholic Herald

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