At the heart of Christianity is the conviction that tomorrow holds the promise of being better than today. Such is the hope that sustains us when the sun sets at the end of each day.
God’s accessible forgiveness should inspire us toward a virtuous life, but it sometimes weakens us into greater sin.
Today, let us choose the prosperity of God. We do not need to earn a nest egg to enter the love of God poured out for us in the Eucharist.
My firstborn son is a teenager now, but I remember his birth like it was yesterday. I met him that day, and in a way, I met my true self. Being a father turned the volume down one very thing else.
It’s a cursed existence to have nearly everything yet focus instead on what one doesn’t have. We see this in the famous story of Eve and Adam, who crave forbidden…
What we consider our work is actually God’s work—work in which we, the body of Christ, intimately participate.
Today, as we walk the aisles of a grocery store, stroll down a street, sit in a park or at our work desks, can we stop and gaze into the eyes of those we meet?
Today’s Gospel invites us to recognize what has withered within us and to turn to Christ for healing and wholeness. If we are willing, we can then share his passion for the life of the world.
In these early days of the year, many of us have done an annual review of 2022 and have made some “resolutions."
This moment in time, on the second day of a new year, is itself a kind of Genesis.
