March 2020

It would seem that bad food eaten as a free person would always taste better than good food eaten as an enslaved person. But too often that is not the case. We long for the good old days even though we know they were not that good. There is some perverse compass within us that […]

Today Jesus holds up a mirror and he asks us to take a look. The person we see in the mirror is the one who is responsible for the life God has given us. We are responsible for our actions. We can no longer be blamers. When the Scribes and Pharisees arrived on the scene,

Fifth Sunday of Lent–  Jesus says, “I came that you may have life, and have it more abundantly. I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he should die, will live again; and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.”  Irenaeus, one of the early Church Fathers said, “The

I recall a prayer of Jesus in which he thanked the Father for having hidden certain truths from the learned and the clever revealing them instead to mere children.  If God was doing that kind of thing 2000 years ago, it occurs to me that he may still be doing that today. Let us approach

Jesus did not fit their expectations of who the Messiah would be. They expected a king who would come in great glory. But Jesus came as a servant. Yet the question persists to this day and even for us believers: Who is this Jesus and what does he mean to me? We too are just

If we truly want to see the glory of God, a glory and praise that give life, we need to move downward with Jesus. We need to become aware of the glory that comes from God by helping the poor, by attending to the needs of those less fortunate than ourselves, by being more sensitive

The Annunciation of the Lord –  As followers of Jesus we have received the power of the Spirit. We have been anointed to carry the message of evangelizing, healing, freeing and bearing a message of hope to the world. We are the body of Jesus visible today. Do we have enough faith in ourselves to

The first essential need towards receiving the healing of Jesus is the intense desire for it. Jesus comes to us and says: “Do you really want to be changed?”If in our inmost hearts we are well content to stay as we are there can be no change for us. The desire for the gifts from

St. Turibius of Magrovejo –  Anxieties and sorrows have the capacity to remind us of our need for God and to start us on a spiritual search. The result of such a quest has to be some amount of good. This is not to suggest that trouble, itself is good. To the contrary, it is

Fourth Sunday of Lent –  Let us pray each day that we all have the courage to live the gospel by proclaiming through our lives what Jesus is doing in us. The man said,“I know this much: He is a prophet. I was blind. Now I can see.” Such is the simple, practical and convincing sermon