Sunday, Oct. 29, is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40. There was an expression common among the ...

Instead, he reframed the entire question, offering two coequal expectations: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest ...

When I was little, I pored over the stories of the saints, especially the martyrs. I was morbidly fascinated by stories of little 6-year-old Conchita of the Drooping Veil who loved God so passionately ...

With Valentine’s Day coming soon, I find myself reflecting on love. The Protestant Bible consists of 66 books — with 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, and a grand total of 807,361 words. Written over ...

The Transfiguration of Jesus, in the Gospel reading for this Sunday's Mass that Msgr. Joseph Prior explains, uses three images that show how God is not distant but is present to us in a communion of ...

With our limited human thinking, we struggle to truly understand the mysterious and overwhelming love of God. We often complicate the matter with our own fears and misconceptions, telling ourselves ...

"And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness: God was manifested in the flesh Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up ...

Have you ever heard the phrase that “love will make you do some reckless things”? How many of you have ever experienced a love so strong that it causes you to behave differently; to become reckless?

“For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay each according to his conduct.” Find today’s readings here. When I graduated from the Jesuit School of ...

The psalm we pray for the feast of the Holy Family begins: "Blest are those who fear the Lord." That's an unfortunate translation. At first glance, fear of the Lord sounds like an attitude of ongoing ...