
All the World Is Gift
When we exist in a world of gift, in which we ourselves are given, then our own labors must be gifts to those around us.
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When we exist in a world of gift, in which we ourselves are given, then our own labors must be gifts to those around us.

Philip fled to Samaria and began to preach the gospel there with great success. The Samaritans found the gospel of Jesus appealing and accepted it joyfully.

Through the eyes of love, we see a tree as kin to us, a fellow God-made creature, with its own dignity and its own right to live and grow.

Divorce is one of those painful experiences many of us do not anticipate will touch their personal lives. God does not hate divorced people or the choices they feel they have to make.

In this week’s Gospel, Christ tells the disciples the story of the Good Shepherd.

The relationship Jesus offers us is one characterized by the dignity and worth he sees in each of us. He knows each of us by name.

After the martyrdom of Stephen a persecution broke out in Jerusalem. The persecution had outcomes different than anybody could expect.

When angels told Joseph to take Mary into his home, flee Bethlehem for Egypt, and then leave Egypt for Nazareth, he did so without questioning.

Stephen’s faithfulness to Jesus cost him his life. Our discipleship too, will have a cost which will somehow involve faithfulness to the Lord.

Clare’s writings often include the metaphor of a mirror. In Francis’s body she beheld a stark mirror of the Passion. She then taught the sisters how clearly they must pattern their lives on that of Jesus. He had to become their Mirror.