In today’s Gospel, we encounter two very different reactions to Jesus’ good works and miracles. The first was anger and...

Holy Week is coming. And with it, the reading of the Passion. Every year, I stand up in Mass with...

Today as we read a portion of the 8th chapter of the Gospel according to Saint John, we notice that...

Oh, those ungrateful Israelites. Shame on them! Almighty God sent incredible plagues to thwart the Egyptians and split the Red...

My blood was boiling. Tears streamed down my face onto my freshly-pressed white dress shirt. The anger inside me grew...

In the past three years, I’ve become well acquainted with death. My husband’s father, brother, and mother have died. My...

We’re now four weeks through Lent. Do your daily crosses feel heavy as mine do? Are you leaning on Jesus,...

Nine years ago last month, my second niece was born. It was a flurry of a birth that ended in...

Every morning I wake up and everything in my being tells me not to get out of bed. DO NOT...

Recently the world has been getting me down. Maybe you've been feeling the same—a little battle weary and stretched thin....

"Do you want to be well?" This is the question that Jesus asks the sick man in today's Gospel. It...

I am always bemused when I read the passages in the Gospels that casually mention Jesus not being welcomed in...

It’s so easy for me to imagine the scene of our First Reading. I have several sons, too, and they...

Today is March 25th . . . the most important date in all history. Seriously. You know it’s the Solemnity...

“We shall say no more, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our hands.” These words of the prophet Hosea stop...

I turn on the news. Another school has lost victims in another shooting. The political climate is more tumultuous and...

How many times has my husband forgiven me in our ten years of marriage? Let's make a conservative estimate of...