Think of these first weeks after Christmas as a season of “epiphanies.” The liturgy is showing us who Jesus is and what He has revealed about our relationship with God. Last week and the week …
The Anointing: The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
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The Liturgy last week revealed the mystery of God’s plan—that in Jesus all peoples, symbolized by the Magi, have been made “coheirs” to the blessings promised to Israel. This week, we’re shown how we claim …
An “epiphany” is an appearance. In today’s readings, with their rising stars, splendorous lights, and mysteries revealed, the face of the child born on Christmas day appears.
Herod, in today’s Gospel, asks the chief priests and …
Why did Jesus choose to become a baby born of a mother and father and to spend all but His last years living in an ordinary human family? In part, to reveal God’s plan to …
My dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,
I understand it is sometimes difficult to see the good when we feel so overwhelmed by despair, but Christmas reminds us of something critical to keep in our …
On this last Sunday before Christmas, the Church’s Liturgy reveals the true identity of our Redeemer: he is, as today’s First Reading says, the “ruler...whose origin is from...ancient times.” He will come from Bethlehem, where …
There was a reason that thousands came out to hear John the Baptist’s preaching. It had been many hundreds of years since a prophet had spoken out and performed signs in the land of Israel. …
Luke is telling us that the story which he is sharing with us is not a myth or a legend. Luke is telling us that Christianity is an historical religion that makes very real historical …
Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings—between promise and fulfillment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking …
What’s the truth that Jesus comes to bear witness to in this last Gospel of the Church’s year? It’s the truth that in Jesus God keeps the promise He made to David of an everlasting …
Near to His passion and death, Jesus gives us a teaching of hope—telling us how it will be when He returns again in glory.
Today’s Gospel is taken from the end of a long discourse in …
We must live by the obedience of faith, a faith that shows itself in works of charity and self-giving. That’s the lesson the two widows are teaching us in today’s readings.
The widow in the First …
