A Homily for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” –Luke 13:24– If you have heard this story from me prior to 2022, you are probably
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A Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent, Year A Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God. –2 Timothy 1:8b– Years ago, I happened to find a quotation that since then has intrigued me. It comes from someone named Helen M. Luke,
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A Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B And people brought to him [i.e. Jesus] a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” –Matthew 16:24-25– A wise woman once said
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And he [i.e. Jesus] said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.” But he strictly charged them and commanded them not to tell this to anyone, saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, be rejected by
Read moreWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. –Matthew
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Therefore now they are no longer two, but one flesh. –Matthew 19:6– Most people who own cactus plants are familiar with what is known as a grafted cactus. Botanists are able to take two very different species of cactus and join them together. The resulting plant, though it would
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