I used to find this Gospel reading particularly challenging. And I used to take it pretty personally. But I’ve come...

  Holiness can seem so daunting. It seems vague at times, all covered in halos and stained glass. The pursuit...

This Gospel has a harsh tone and impact. The city will not have one stone upon another. The city's enemies...

And day and night they never cease to sing ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and...

I don't know about you, but I'm rather short. I'm no stranger to standing on my tip-toes, and having to...

  The other week I took my son for a checkup at our faith-based family practice, where we are very...

In August, my husband and I went to a baseball game in the city with a friend of ours. Before...

Have you ever given into someone’s request because that person wouldn’t stop asking? Think about it for a few seconds....

Today’s Gospel Reading is not the easiest one out there but sometimes a dose of reality is needed to help...

I love the fact that God gives us best friends. Who are your best friends? Who do you share your...

Most of us are familiar with the social treatment of lepers in the time of Christ and throughout history. At...

Readings like today's—the ones that urge us to go above and beyond—give me a little bit of a guilt complex....

Today's Gospel is haunting. It haunts all of us, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends. Forgiveness; sinning; faith. It is Christ, Our...

Saturday is my chore day. It’s the day I can do all the things I don’t have time to do...

  It’s like today’s readings were screaming at me. It’s as if God himself was banging down my door, shaking...

The readings today are powerful as always. But it is the First Reading that really grabs me with its inherent...

  We live in a world obsessed with success. Blaring messages of perfection and so-called true satisfaction beckon to us....