Sunday, Feb. 24, is the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C). Mass Readings: 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; Psalm 103: 1-4, 8, 10, 12-13; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38. Is Jesus serious?

Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say ...

This Sunday’s Gospel gives a rare opportunity to enter into Jesus’ personal prayer. Listening to his prayer allows for a glimpse of his interior life and mysticism. Shifts in grammar and language ...

Fortunately, it became impossible to attend there, and instead I was blessed to end up at an irrelevant church. Our family arrived promptly at 10:00 A.M., and we were greeted by a woman who was ...

(RNS) “Homeless Jesus” was bolted down in February, beside a bronze plaque with the familiar words from Matthew 25:40 -- “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, ...

Find today’s reading here. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!” (Lk 10:14) Many of us of a certain age grew up with an image of Jesus in our homes, regarding us dreamily, softly illumined, ...

What shall we do? What are the works that God wants us to do? This question is supremely important, as you might imagine, trying to know what God wants us to do, and as we listen to our scriptures ...

As the lights flashed and the music blared out something caught my attention. It wasn’t the flashing lights nor was it the blaring music. As I stood excitedly at my first Chris Tomlin concert I was ...

(RNS) — “So, what are you doing for Christmas? ” asked a pastor, a good friend of mine, after a recent interfaith panel discussion on Zoom that we’d both participated in. I responded, “Saving my money ...

In a small college town 20 miles north of Charlotte, N.C., "Homeless Jesus" is provoking more conversation than a month of Sunday sermons. The life-size sculpture depicting a figure asleep under a ...