Sunday Readings

Who but a fool would accept a savior who presents himself that way? And whose certainties will survive when he strips away every earthly power?

The readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, touch on one of the core question of our time, and give a surprising answer.

Discover what Tolkien saw in the Eucharist.

The signs of the Trinity are everywhere, especially in we who are made in God’s image.

Put yourself in the scene, on the eve of Christ’s death. You have literally left everything to follow Jesus. Now he is going to die ... but says not to worry. Really?

The Scriptures continue to speak to our times so specifically that it seems as if God planned it that way. Which of course he did.

Divine Mercy does not mean God shrugs his shoulders and says “Forget about it.” Justice must be paid — and Jesus Christ paid it.

Before the Resurrection, the Apostles hid their faith like it was a virus. Jesus expects us to experience the same change they did.

Palm Sunday readings are a miniature version of Holy Week, and a miniature guide to the whole Christian life.

“This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God,” Jesus said to his Apostles, and to us today.

In the darkness of the coronavirus, we can see the light of Christ more clearly.

Our meeting with Jesus looks a lot like the Samaritan woman’s. Does our response look like hers, too?