You or I might feel helpless after so many years of such suffering; but when the woman approached Jesus, it seems she saw in Him something different, some glimmer of hope. She told herself that if she could even touch His clothes, she would be healed, and reaching out was indeed a great act of [...]
Last night my little boy confessed to me some childish wrong;
And kneeling at my knee he prayed with tears;
“Dear God, make me a man, like Daddy – wise and strong; I know You can.”
Then while he slept, I knelt beside his bed,
Confessed my sins and prayed with low-bowed head;
“O God, make me a child, like [...]
Today’s Gospel tells of a storm, the disciples’ fear of drowning, the feeling of abandonment and the call for help. In the ancient Near East the sea symbolized the power of chaos and evil in the struggle against God.
In our life of faith sometimes we may have feelings of being close to God. Perhaps when [...]
We are not a people who exist in a spiritual, other-worldly environment. We are human beings of flesh and blood, with our feet on the ground in this world. We live as members of a eucharistic community, a people formed, grounded and fed by the Eucharist, a people in communion with God and with each [...]
Sometimes we get bogged down in the intellectual, and forget the imagination. We look for proof in numbers and statistics, instead of seeing the truth.
In today’s Gospel Jesus sends out the disciples on a mission to all nations, to baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. [...]
