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 …