Sharing the Word

The Roman centurion's soldiers obey him because he has authority over them. He has faith in Jesus’s authority. How have I experienced the authority of Jesus in my life?

Jesus tells his hearers what it takes to be a good disciple of his. First of all, your life and work has to yield results that nourish and energize those to whom they are directed. Secondly, what you leave behind ...

It's generally not appropriate for us to judge another because we're generally not qualified to judge. We're all limited in one way or another. None of us is fully equipped to render judgment.

Today's Gospel reading gives us the genealogy of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus. Without all those people, and without the cooperation of Joseph, God’s plan of salvation wouldn’t have come to fulfillment.

Those who are defenseless and without recourse to society’s justice seem to count for nothing. In our own nation we can’t help but see individuals who are counted to be of little value. In reality they are our brothers and ...

The apostles were not prominent people. All of them were pretty ordinary. You didn’t have to qualify to approach Jesus. You just had to want to be near him.