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.”
Sunday Scriptures
Jesus Teaches Followers the Conditions of Discipleship
Sometimes in our reading of Sacred Scripture, it’s important to put things into context. Sometimes, it’s important to examine exactly where a section of the Bible is taken from in order to understand it more fully.
What Are You Giving Up For This Lenten Season?
What are you giving up for Lent?
To Follow Jesus, Our Lives Must Conform to His
As a kid growing up, many of my friends would tell me all the time that being a Christian is easy.
Matthew Recounts Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount
When I was a college seminarian, one of our apostolate ministries was to serve as catechists at parishes in their faith formation programs.
The Gospel Says We Must Be the Light of the World
I have been wearing eyeglasses since the age of seven.
Blessed Are Those Who Depend on God
A beautiful painting my sister Therese gave me hangs on my wall, one of Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount to a crowd of people of humble origin. Besides the soft colors, light-blue wooden frame, and depiction of Our Lord, what strikes me about the painting is the closeness of Jesus to His attentive listeners.
To Fish as Jesus Does Is to Be a Fisher of Men
I love fish on my plate, seeing them in aquariums, and coming upon very tiny ones in the surf of Coney Island.
John Boldly Goes Where No Prophet Has Gone Before
It was not until seminary studies that I learned that the word “scapegoat,” so often used colloquially for a person who is unfairly assigned blame for the transgressions of others.
Marking the Miracle Birth in a Manger
The poem is by English poet Mary Coleridge and is entitled Salus Mundi.