First Sunday of Lent, Year C
Welcome to this Holy Season of Lent. The Church gives us this time to prepare ourselves through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; to strengthen our relationship …

Welcome to this Holy Season of Lent. The Church gives us this time to prepare ourselves through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; to strengthen our relationship …


The teaching of Jesus — as sublime as it truly is — and its urgent need and demand — folly to human wisdom — are …



The passage from the Book of Samuel selected for the first reading this Sunday recalls how David spared Saul in his mercy. Mercy seems to …


“Cursed…..Blessed.” These words, which occur respectively at the beginning of the two paragraphs that constitute this very short — four verses — of the first reading, immediately …


In his relation to God and his mission, Jesus is and will always be alone. It is in and through him alone that the mystery …