Lent calls for a return to the basics.
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To understand what Jesus means by calling his disciples “the salt of the earth,” St. Augustine said that we should keep in mind the two immediately preceding verses.
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With the feast of the Holy Family, the church, I think, simply wants our Christmas adoration, our meditation, to linger.
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Is Jesus the Messiah? This is the question John the Baptist’s disciples ask, and the answer has a call to action for us today.
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Since ancient times, Romans 13 has been read by Christians at Advent. To wake up spiritually to the reality of Christ’s presence is the message: “You know the time; it …
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To know the end is near, to watch for the end, St. Augustine taught that the fruit of such knowledge and vigilance is patience. The readings this Sunday are indeed …
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Dante’s Purgatorio is just a poem, a work of fiction, but it expresses a great truth — the truth we Catholics celebrate each year on All Souls Day.
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The believer should imitate the persistent widow — “importunate” she’s called.
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Scripture readings for Oct. 5, 2025, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-92 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14Lk 17:5-10 Between the disciples of Jesus and those whose faith …
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The mystery is mysterious, but the take-home point is simple. The Trinity matters.
