A friend once told me that loving is a way of knowing, that we are to read scripture with more heart, and less brain. In the parable of the Sower…

It would be easy to read today’s Gospel and be content to remind myself that actions speak louder than words. Yet, the two powerful images in Jesus’ parable, a rotten…

How can I be delivered from the world’s wisdom into a fuller life? In his homily in today’s Office of Readings, Pope St. Gregory laments, “With my mind divided and…

Every religion has a tale about practitioners who “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Buddhism offers the story of the unruly cat. The master ties the cat to a…

One night, the local news announced the lottery jackpot had reached nearly a billion dollars. Sitting with my housemates, we marveled at this astronomical amount. “Think of all the good…

Today’s Gospel is fit for funerals. It promises hope and delivers consolation. Families pray in hope that nothing of the self-giving they experienced in the life of their loved one…

Is the story of Jesus Christ a “cleverly devised myth” (quoting St. Peter in today’s readings)? What’s striking about the Gospel stories is actually how different they are from our…

The Gospel today offers two of the shortest parables in Scripture. Both challenge any tendency we might have to think small. Mustard seeds and yeast are seemingly tiny contributions to…

It’s easy to see the genetic origin of the “Sons of Thunder” nickname given to the brothers in today’s Gospel. The mother of James and John certainly had moxie and…

Teilhard de Chardin said that, “[s]omeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second…