Find what you’re looking for
Exodus 32:7–14; Psalm 106:19–20, 21–22, 23; John 5:31–47
Before he became the “go-to” saint for finding lost objects, St. Anthony of Padua had another nickname: “The Hammer of Heretics.”
Scholars have referred to Mark’s Gospel as a passion narrative with a few introductory texts. But more to the point, it is better described as a primer on conversion.
Friends are people who are there for us when we need them. Often we don’t know who among our acquaintances are true friends until circumstances reveal it.
Gianna’s priority, even as the pregnancy threatened her own life, was the life of her child.
Being Easter people means celebrating the good news of the risen Christ and opening our hearts and eyes to the signs of new life within and around us.
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JN 11:1-45
Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.
So the sisters sent word to him saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
If we are called to conform ourselves and our culture to the nature of God and the nature of nature, then we can’t simply throw away things.
The man healed in the Gospel story (John 5:1-16) complains that no one has helped him to get into the magic pool while the angel was stirring the waters.
When there are people to be baptized in my parish during Lent, the whole season takes on a different character.
Even when we have faced the truth and given up false hope, there remains a pocket of desperation where the dream of a miracle never dies.
