Reflections

St. Augustine was arguably the greatest theologian in the history of the Church. For centuries after his death in the year 430, his writings were...

I’d like to draw your attention to the Prayer over the Offerings from today’s Mass. It reads: Grant, we pray, oh Lord,That, as promised...

When I was a child, it seemed to me that everyday life – everyday human experience – was somehow paper-thin, or lacking an essential...

Imagine you’re a student sitting in a classroom. The teacher turns to the class and says, “I’m sure I don’t need to tell you...

As a newly ordained priest in the late 1980s, my first assignment was to live and work in Nairobi, Kenya. A great thing about preaching there was...

The two travelers on the road to Emmaus knew all about the fate that Jesus had suffered in Jerusalem. They had heard about His arrest, His...

When, at Mass on Palm Sunday, the Passion of our Lord is read in parts, the congregation often takes the role of the crowd, and calls out,...

Our Lord loves each of us with an extravagant, unbounded, profligate love. Each of us tries to love Christ in return, to the full extent of our...

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. The woman at the well thought she was hard-hearted. She was levelheaded and unsentimental....