Twenty Sixth Sunday
The Church’s insistence on social justice begins with Jesus, has been articulated by itsSaints and Popes, especially since Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum in 1891.…
Twenty Fifth Sunday – C
Why does God want us to ask for things? Does God change His mind when we keepasking, similar to the way that children change their…
Holy Cross
Yves Congar, O.P., has written that “The relationship [between God and us] is nowaffected through God humbling Himself to come to us in the form…
Twenty Fourth Sunday – C
Probably every one that cares about being a good person feels guilty about the ways inwhich he or she has not been good in the…
Twenty Third Sunday – C
Should we hate anyone? Today’s Gospel, Luke 14:25-33, lines up a whole list of peoplewe might hate: “If anyone comes to Me without hating his…
Twenty Second Sunday – C
Because of Jesus’ ongoing challenges of the emphasis on the rules of the Pharisees,some people think the commandments to love God and to love our…
Twenty First Sunday – C
“Try to come in through the narrow gate” (Luke 13:24). What is the “narrow gate” andhow do we “try to come through it”?Jesus is the…
Twentieth Sunday – C
If we look at today’s Gospel, Luke 12:49-53, we might think that Christians are verydifficult people: families are divided two against three. Fathers are split…
Nineteenth Sunday – C
“Faith” not only includes truths that we believe about God but also the truth of God’sactions in our own lives, according to the Letter to…
Eighteenth Sunday – C
As soon as I woke up, I opened the New Testament and my eyes fell on thewords, “This day, your life will be demanded of…