The bridegroom prepares a place
March 2, 2026
May 3 — Jn 14:1-12
The marriage custom in ancient Jewish culture was very different from ours today.
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Lenten renewal
February 28, 2026
March 1 — Mt 17:1-9
An unexpected large bill arrives in your inbox. The shower drain gets clogged. You almost forget an important birthday. You slip on the ice and strain your shoulder.
The test
February 21, 2026
Once upon a time in college, an atheist friend of mine decided to disprove the existence of God. He devised a simple experiment: Setting a glassful of water on a table’s edge, he explained that if God were real, he would value my friend’s soul enough to prove himself by knocking over the glass or miraculously emptying it.
On the Mount
February 14, 2026
This Sunday provides us a with a long section of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, probably his most famous extended set of teachings.
Salt and light
February 7, 2026
Feb. 8 — Mt 5:13–16 “You are the salt of the earth … You are the light of the world,” we are told today. This Gospel text follows immediately after the Beatitudes, which we heard last Sunday.
Seek the Lord
January 31, 2026
Feb. 1 — Mt 5:1-12a
God has a special place in his heart for the lowly and the humble.
The prophecy
January 24, 2026
It’s easy to misunderstand prophecy. That statement is true in several senses, but especially when it comes to Jesus fulfilling prophecies as he does in our Gospel today. Jesus moves to Capernaum and it fulfills a passage in Isaiah. Did Jesus have to live there? Or did he choose to?
The Lamb of God
January 17, 2026
This Sunday, John the Baptist, the great voice crying out ahead of the Messiah, tells us who Jesus Christ really is at the heart of his identity and mission. He is “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,” and he is “the Son of God … who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.”
You’re the adult
December 27, 2025
Faced with perhaps a first big emergency as adults, most of us have had this thought process: “Trouble! Call the adults!” Then an unsettling realization: “Oh no. I’m the grown-up here.”
Animated by divine joy
December 13, 2025
Today is called “Gaudete” Sunday, named after the first word of the entrance antiphon of the Mass: “Rejoice (gaudete) in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice. Indeed, the Lord is near.” (Phil 4:4–5)
