by Msgr. Joseph Calise I HAVE BEEN involved with people in 12-step recovery for the past 23 years. I have had the wonderful opportunity to share time and stories with men and women, rich and poor, young and old, white collar, blue collar – and roman collar – who come together solely to explore their […]
Sunday Scriptures
God Wants Our Eternal Salvation
by Father John P. Cush I REALLY CONSIDER myself blessed to have been assigned to Rome for post-graduate doctoral work this past semester. Instead of just reading about Church history, I had the opportunity to live it out in the events of February and March, 2013. The resignation of our beloved Benedict XVI and his final days […]
Kindness and Courtesy Are Rewarded
by Father John P. Cush HERE’S A LITTLE riddle for you: How many people can fit on a bus in the city of Rome, Italy? The answer: always one more! As someone who has lived in Rome for a few years, in my first incarnation as a seminarian and as a newly ordained priest, and […]
Doing God’s Work Together Under His Command
by Father John P. Cush Sunday, July 7 In today’s Gospel, taken from the Evangelist Luke, we read of the commissioning of the disciples by the Lord. We see that the Lord does something a little bit unusual and perhaps for our modern standards, a bit inefficient! He sends his disciples out two-by-two. Why would […]
God Empowers Us to Go Forward in the Mission
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. “Follow Me.” “I will follow You wherever You go.” Today’s Scriptures are powerful reminders for our responses and behaviors in this “Ordinary Time.” They are anything but ordinary, and they are anything but easy to follow in the ordinary and in the less-than-ordinary events of our everyday lives. Human […]
Where Do We Draw the Line of Faith?
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. But you, who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) Cross bearer… Chosen One… Savior… Christ of God! No ordinary times have we here. No ordinary reminders have we of grace received, of self-emptying for the sake of each one of us. Over the next few weeks in our […]
Nothing Ordinary About the Feast of Reconciliation
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.” We continue through these “ordinary weeks” and are vividly reminded of the extraordinary, prodigal, overflowing and compassionate healing, forgiveness and hospitality of God in Jesus’ redemptive love. We are, again, comforted with our Holy Father’s words: “… sometimes […]
In Jesus, We Will Be Made Whole and Transformed Anew
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. IN A HOLY Week homily, Pope Francis was re-imaging for the assembly both Luke’s Gospel of the sinful woman and the Easter scene of Jesus sensitively revealing Himself to Mary at the tomb. The first scene is one of repentance, while the second is one of heartbreak and shock and […]
God Chooses the Ordinary
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. THE FEAST OF Corpus Christi, which the Church entitles a solemnity, a feast of special commemoration and celebration, reminds us as we prepare for Ordinary Time that God chooses the ordinary. The ordinary becomes the extraordinary in Jesus’ teachings, on how we are called to live and in the miracles […]
Come, Holy Spirit!
by Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz I WOULD BE acknowledging my inner nerd if I were to admit in print that I’m a big fan of the Mythbusters show on the Discovery Channel, but so be it! Do plants have feelings? Is it dangerous to take a shower during a thunderstorm? Can somebody swim through syrup just […]