Twenty Fourth Sunday – B

Can faith be lifeless? St. James thinks it can. In his letter, James raise his challenge: “What good is it to profess faith without practicing…

Twenty Third Sunday – B

Jesus pokes His fingers in the ears of the deaf man. Then, Jesus spits on His finger and places it upon the man’s tongue to…

Twenty-Second Sunday – B

At times, our ideas about God and His expectations get distorted. We can think of religious terrorists today and even we Christians have, at times,…

Twenty-First Sunday – B

Why does Jesus use such hard language in today’s Gospel (Jn 6:60-69)? Jesus has told the crowd that they must eat His body and they…

Twentieth Sunday – B

Like a driver who switches the gears forward, Jesus slowly builds upon the significance of the bread that He gives for life, as we have…

Nineteenth Sunday – B

“I am the living bread come down from heaven” (Jn 6:41). Jesus doesn’t blink when He announces He has come down from the Father, knowing…

Seventeenth Sunday – B

Each of the four Gospels recounts a variety of miracles that Jesus performed: healings,exorcisms and even raising the dead. The multiplication of the bread was…

Sixteenth Sunday – B

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, when the Letter to the Ephesians speaks of those who are “in Christ,” it means by faith and love: “You…

Fifteenth Sunday – B

Everyone has an idea of what God is like. Some of these ideas of God are problems because they make people distance themselves from God.…