Religious Education - Children
Catechist BlogThe Greatest Commandment
Sometimes the Internet can overwhelm us with too much information and with dubious facts and conspiracies. We can truly lose the forest for the trees and lose sight of what is important and true! The Jewish scribe in today’s Gospel also had this feeling of being...
I’m only asking…
The first reading for today’s Mass is from the Book of Tobit, chapter 3. There in verse 6 is a simple phrase - in the Greek it is oneidismous pseudeis. Depending on the New American Bible translation being used you will either hear “false reproaches” or the less...
Taxes, Church and State, hypocrisy
Today’s Gospel is the classic text that is cited to describe the relationship between church and state. Jesus’ answer seems simple and direct: “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” Since Caesar’s image and inscription is on the...
A piece of the mosaic
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation when the Blessed Virgin Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth immediately after the events of the Annunciation when the Angel Gabriel proclaimed the conception of the Christ Child by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lucan...
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Trust, Prayer, and Bearing Fruit
When one hears the story of Jesus and the fig tree in today’s gospel, it has to strike you as one of the strangest in the Gospels. It seems completely out of character for Jesus to curse anything much less a fig tree. When the text goes on to include the detail that...
Now I See
Samantha had just finished college. The only job she was able to find after graduation was as a nanny to a wealthy and extremely likable family. It was a great job for a nanny – but not what she envisioned her life to be. While her friends were going off to law...
Your Baptism
I recently celebrated a birthday. There were plenty of years I did not celebrate it - not because of any reason other than I was not with a group of people for whom it was a memorable date. As best I can remember all the birthdays between high school graduation and...
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Sacrifice, Peace and Justice, Liturgy
Liturgy and Life must always go together. We should bring our life, our joys and our sorrows, our hopes and our doubts, to our liturgical celebrations. We are also called to live out what we proclaim and what we celebrate in liturgy into our daily life. Jesus ben...