Wisdom is a divine gift, in fact, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The wise person seeks wisdom, while the fool runs from thing to...

Today St. Paul reminds us to humbly regard others as more important than ourselves. By this he does not mean that we should regard...

Recall that the Church already existed when the gospels, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, were written down. Thus, the parable of...

Anger, in its proper use, is meant to protect us or someone who is dear to us. But so often anger builds a home in the heart and begins to...

The Church has a prophetic mission, to tell the truth to the world. This mission is not an easy one because it means pointing out the...

Both our first reading from the Prophet Jeremiah, and the Responsorial Psalm text from Psalm 63 speak in visceral terms, terms felt at the...

Jesus asks this question of his apostles in today’s reading from St. Matthew’s Gospel. If the question was relevant in Jesus’ own...

God’s intent, throughout the sacred story of the scriptures, was that the One True God should be known to all the nations of the earth!...

In our search for faith, we often enough look for God in grand and large things. We look for signs “of biblical proportions,” like...

Pastoral Reflection There is an irony in the juxtaposition of the first reading and the gospel. Abraham, who thinks he must “give up”...