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Master, I Want To See
What do you want me to do for you? Those were the words of Jesus while standing before Bartimaeus, the blind man. In the Gospel of Mark (10:46-52), we are informed that these words were spoken shortly...
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Living As Committed Christians
A farmer had been inconvenienced for many years by a large, flat rock in one of his fields. He always had to plow around it, but in the process had broken several plows and a cultivator, which annoyed...
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God Has Made A Tremendous Act Of Faith In Us
What awaits us in our future? The Scripture readings for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Wisdom 18:6-9; Hebrews 11:1-2,8; Luke 12:32-48) put that question to us. What does the future hold in store...
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Being Faithful Servants
Once upon a time there was a powerful and wealthy king who had a large royal court. One of the king’s many servants was the court jester. One day the jester was entertaining the king by acting in a...
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We Are Called To Take Our Faith Seriously
At an elementary school teachers’ meeting one December, just before the Christmas break, the principal suggested, “Let’s all write out our New Year’s resolutions about how we can be better at our...
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People Of Faith
During the last sixty or seventy years there has been among us a tremendous loss in our willingness to trust others. Beginning with the Vietnam War and immediately thereafter with Watergate, our...
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Got Faith?
On October 24, 1993, one of the most influential advertising campaigns of all time was launched by a large advertising agency whose client was the California Milk Processor Board. With the use of just...
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Faith Is Something We Do
Whenever October rolls around, I know that we are officially in the season of autumn. Even if some of the days are hot, I know that winter is right around the corner. Programs and projects are in full...
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Will He Find Any Faith On Earth?
The point of the Gospel (Luke 18:1-8) for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time is obviously Jesus encouraging our persistence in prayer. But there is an incredible irony in the story that Jesus tells. You...
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How Do We Approach Life?
Today’s Gospel from Luke (21:5-19) paints a bleak picture. Although it is written to suggest that these “signs” of the end of the world will occur sometime in the future, in reality Luke was...
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Faith Is A Life That We Lead
For the Second Sunday of Lent, all three readings follow the same thought that, perhaps, can be expressed in this way: faith is a journey we are all on, a journey of joy, a journey that demands...
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Francis and the Media: A Doomed Romance
The Lenten season is an excellent time for confessions, so here goes: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. On April 13, I actually watched a segment of 60 Minutes. I hadn’t planned to do it, but as I...
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Gone Forever?
Recently, I attended mass for the first time in a few months. Last year, my wife suffered a stroke and it has not been easy getting out for the time necessary to attend services at my local parish. The...
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Faith And Hope Are What Should Be In Our Hearts
When it comes to facing failures in life, the farmer in the Gospel parable for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time sounds a lot like many of us. We work hard, and only sometimes succeed. Most of the best...
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Are We Absent From God?
Watching TV news reports night after night can lead us into despondency to the point where we might lose our faith in the basic goodness in our world that seems to be buried alive in the tidal waves...
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A House Of Prayer For All People
God’s love and His gift of salvation, through faith in Jesus Christ, is offered to everyone. In the Old Testament, perhaps the Prophet Isaiah (56:7) says this best when he declares: “My house shall be...
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The Path Of Jesus
The Gospel for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Mt 15: 21-28) contains one of the most memorable verbal duels recorded in the four Gospels, and one of the most important. We need to pick it apart and...
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Let It Be Done For You As You Wish
One of my favorite scriptural passages to use during the Rite of Baptism is found in the Gospel of Matthew (19:13-15): Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray....
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A Christian View Of Self
“That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ—all these are undoubtedly great virtues . . . But what if I should discover that the least among them all,...
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Doing The Father’s Will
Each one of us is born into this world possessing certain gifts and talents. These gifts and talents were given to us by God. They are specific to each and every individual and, along with our own...
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