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When we are facing difficulties in life, when we are struggling to make ends meet, when we are confronted with life’s tragedies, when we suffer it can often seem like God has forsaken us and has forgotten that we are his children. We feel lost... More Info →

“So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” In the gospel of Matthew Jesus gives his disciples an imperative command in his instructions on discipleship in the Sermon on the Mount. This exigent demand does not ask of us to “act” in... More Info →

Choices. Every day we are faced with countless choices. What we choose and how we choose determines the course of our lives. There is tremendous power in our human ability to choose. At times choices determine the course of history. One choice... More Info →

A pinch of salt can make all the difference. It seems like a small and insignificant thing since a pinch is such a small amount and yet, if it is left out of the mix, whatever you are preparing will have very little taste and will be bland and... More Info →

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” (Mt 5,17) Jesus comes into the world to fulfill the law and the prophets and to give us an incarnate image of what God intends for... More Info →

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Today in our gospel reading we see the beginnings of the work of evangelization among the people of Jesus’ time. After his baptism and when John the Baptist has been arrested, signaling the end of... More Info →

“John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ”Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world…” (Jn 1,29) In our gospel reading John the Baptist points the way to Jesus as the Lamb of God, the one who is to come to save... More Info →

“John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ”Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world…” (Jn 1,29) In our gospel reading John the Baptist points the way to Jesus as the Lamb of God, the one who is to come to save... More Info →

“Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you.” (Is 60,1) “We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” (Mt 2,1) Often in our lives we are waiting for that one star — that star that... More Info →

As we celebrate Christmas day for an octave (eight days) we continue to keep the mystery of the Incarnation before us — the mystery of the Eternal Word made flesh, the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Lord and Savior. We come to the... More Info →