As the youngest and the only adopt¬ed child in an immigrant family, my primary years were spent experienc¬ing members of our household leaving the only place I used to call home. One by one I watched them leave for the United States.

The Lenten season is known to us as a preparation season. It prepares us for the celebration of Christ’s resurrection at Easter.

Sheep need a shepherd.

Virgil’s poem The Aeneid tells the story of Aeneas who flees the fall of Troy and goes to Italy to become the ancestor of the Roman people.

There is a distinct contrast in the attitude of Thomas when we first hear him in today’s Gospel and when he speaks to Jesus a week later.

Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski were prisoners of war in a concentration camp in Austria. They translated their experiences into the play, “Stalag 17,” which in 1953 was made into a movie with the same name.

One of the most relatable prayers of Jesus is His faith-filled plea to the Father that He not have to drink of the cup of the cross.

When we encounter the Lord Jesus in today’s Gospel, He is at His low point, at the nadir of His popularity.

I recall being in fifth grade at Holy Name of Jesus School in Windsor Ter¬race when my teacher told my parents that I was having some problems reading what was written on the blackboard.

Our Lord Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman, who is simply looking for some water, is a supreme example of what Pope Francis calls “accompaniment.”