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...
In today’s first reading the Lord commands the Israelites: “Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy.” This phrase is translated differently by Matthew and Luke in their respective Gospels: Matthew: “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (5:48)....
