Jesus calls us as disciples to draw people to God. Our good deeds can draw people to God, but bad deeds or hypocrisy can drive people away from the church and even from God. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus calls us to let our light shine: “You are the light of the...
In today’s Gospel Jesus invites his first disciples and invites all of us to “Come and See.” Philip finds Nathanael and tells him we found the one foretold in the Scripture (“the Law, and also the prophets”). It is: “Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” Nathanael is...
Today’s first reading is the prophet Ezekiel’s great vision of dry bones. As we hear at the beginning of today’s reading “and of the LORD came upon me and led me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the center of the plain, which was now filled with bones.”...
How many times? Peter’s question to Jesus in today’s Gospel is probably a question all of us have asked. “Lord, if my brother or sister sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?” While Peter thinks he is being generous Jesus tells him...
It is quite natural to have a little fear or anxiety as we think about death and particularly as we think about our own death. The Peace Prayer of St. Francis helps us to understand and even embrace the mystery of death: “For it is in giving that we receive, it is in...
