The exultant fronds of Palm Sunday have been reduced to ashes. The Church reminds us of our own mortality and bids us to reorient our lives. There is a certain…

St. Paul’s plans for the day collapsed when Christ shouted in his ear. After that his life took a different course.

What Jesus observed was something different. A poverty-stricken widow furtively dropping a couple of coins in the box, hoping not to be noticed.