“You can’t take it with you!” – Deacon Thomas G. Davis talks about this age-old lesson in relation to Jesus’ parable of the rich man in this Sunday’s Scriptures.
Sunday Scriptures
A Closer Look at The Lord’s Prayer
The Our Father is one of the first prayers we learned as children
Do You Have Time for God?
Today’s Gospel challenges us as we plan out our goals and objectives to include time every day to put ourselves in the presence of God. Time where, instead of asking God for things in our lives and to grant our petitions, we listen to what God has to say to us.
Being an Example of Love and Mercy
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is tested by a person knowledgeable in the law when He is asked: “What must he do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus responds by testing the scholar – and all who hear this passage – with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
All We Have to Do Is Let Go and Let God
There are events in our lives that make lasting impressions on us. In my own life, an event took place many years ago when I was beginning my journey to the diaconate. There were 12 of us in our first year of the program. This was a year of discerning our faith and our personal relationship with God.
Imagine a World Where Everybody Loved
I invited students to close their eyes and imagine a world where everybody loved each other. The world would be a completely different place if we all loved one another as brothers and sisters. As “cheesy” as that image is, I think it had an impact on how they are to treat one another.
First Encounters with Christ
Father Alonzo Q. Cox reflects on how as Christians, we are to keep our eyes fixated on Jesus.
United In God’s Love And Mercy
AS A CHILD growing up, my family would spend summers in North Carolina. My mother grew up in a town called Williamston, which is about 30 miles west of Greenville, North Carolina. Williamston is a town that, to this very day, everybody knows each other!
How Does God Show Himself?
Father Alonzo Q. Cox reflects on how through the revelation of His Son Jesus, God continues to show Himself to us.
Today Is the Day, Ready or Not
On this Feast of Corpus Christi, Father Anthony Raso reminds us that the Body and Blood of Christ is not just some lovely symbol that we can admire from afar, but a powerful light that we must take within our hearts and then carry into a world that it still too much lost in the dark.
