Today’s Gospel is the story of the “second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.” Jesus heals the son of a royal official in the town of Capernaum. In John’s Gospel signs are healings or miracles that Jesus performs. The Evangelist seems to have an...
In today’s Gospel a sincere Jewish scribe comes to Jesus with a legitimate question. What is most important? What is the central core of our faith and our faith life? As a scribe he had prayerfully studied the Sacred Scripture. Perhaps he even felt a bit...
Jesus declares in today’s Gospel: “But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.” Jesus has gone about doing good, healing people and performing exorcisms. Those who oppose Jesus cannot deny that these healings...
Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Joseph. As we hear in today’s Gospel, Joseph was a son of David the great King of Israel. More importantly as we hear in the beginning of today’s Gospel, Joseph was “the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the...
In today’s Gospel Jesus calls us to be Godlike: “Be merciful, just as also your Father is merciful.” We hear of the great mercy of God in today’s first reading from the book of Daniel: “O Lord, we are ashamed, like our kings, our princes, and our ancestors, for...
