There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” Read more…

A few days ago, a friend of mine was talking about work and she asked me, “When someone is gone, do we miss them or do you miss them?  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say, wow, I’m so Read more…

Jesus tells us in Matthew 19:29 that they that leave all things will receive a hundredfold in return. “And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake Read more…

“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”  So go the words to the title of one of the songs that is customarily sung each year on Good Friday.  It is a day when Catholic Christians come together to venerate Read more…

The other evening I was reading—rereading actually—a book called Stumble, Virtue and Vice and the Space In Between, by Heather King, when I ran across this quote written by a nun on retreat in 1992:             Look for the good Read more…

  “If God wills nothing but our best good, and if He has the power always to get what He wills, and if He makes no mistakes about what is in fact our best good, then it necessarily follows, it Read more…

Paul tells us that “we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access [by faith] to this grace in which we stand, and we boas in hope Read more…

Advent is the season of expectation of the Christ.  Although it has a somewhat penitential tone to it, the focus is on the coming of the Messiah (deliverer), Jesus Christ. From the time of the Babylonian Captivity the Jewish people Read more…

  It’s Not About Me. It sounds so simple. But it has proven extremely difficult for me to remember and to apply to my everyday life. It has been challenging to live as if the purpose of my life is Read more…