Twenty-First Sunday: Entering By the Narrow Gate to Find True Freedom
Strive to enter to through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able (Lk. 13:...
Twentieth Sunday: Casting Fire Upon the Earth!
I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be...
Laughter and Weeping, Riches and Wealth
Occasionally, in hearing confessions, I encounter a penitent who has been away from the sacraments for a number of years. When it comes time...
Diversity, The First Person In The Triad Of The New Religion
Introduction
Diversity is esteemed to be an overarching good and a fundamental value such as love, prudence or justice, which are deemed always good irrespective...
Nineteenth Sunday: Consolation and Exhortation
‘Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom’ (Lk. 12:32). ⧾
These are perhaps among the most...
St John Marie Vianney, Our Life’s Companion
Recently, as I was reading, I came across a very intriguing quote by Robert Lee Fulghum, who said: The solution to alone-ness is not...
Eighteenth Sunday and Setting Our Sights On What is Above
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Banishing Envy
The final words of today’s second reading, from Saint Paul’s letter to the Colossians, like their parallel in Galatians, are much resorted today:
Here there...
The Narrow and Wide Gate: Taking Up Our Cross
“If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things; one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other...
Seventeenth Sunday: Perfecting Our Prayer With and In Christ
Ask and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you (Lk. 11: 9)....