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

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

“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

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

“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

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

Every people have heroes who have given their lives for the freedom and peace of their community. Their sacrifices, although in the past, live on

In addition to the physical pain that suffering brings, suffering is a nuisance thatblocks us from what we really want to do for ourselves, our

Moses, in the Book of Deuteronomy, tells us to “return to the Lord your God withall your heart and all your soul” (Dt 30:10). Moses

Being nailed to a cross was not only a torturous form of execution but a slow andhumiliating one, during which the onlookers watched dying person’s