Today’s Gospel is the story of Jesus healing a leper. While the disease of leprosy has been pretty much eradicated today there are still many people in society today who are treated as outcasts or lepers. Jesus teaches and shows us how we must respond to such...
Today’s first reading is the story of the call of the prophet Samuel. His first couples of responses are “Here I am” as he mistakes the voice of God for the voice of the priest Eli, thinking that it is Eli who is calling him. Finally, Eli helps Samuel to realize...
John the Baptist’s role in John’s Gospel is to be a witness and to give testimony. In the Prologue to the Gospel, we hear: “He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the...
Today as we celebrate a New Year, we look to Mary, the servant of the Lord and the Mother of God. Mary was part of God’s eternal plan which comes to fulfillment in the fullness of time as Paul describes it in today’s second reading: “When the fullness of time had...
It all begins with God, and it will all end with God. This is the theme proclaimed in today’s Gospel from the Prologue to John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” While everything begins and ends with God he...
