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Today’s Scriptures invite us to think about life after death. Jesus is very clear about life after death. We believe that life does not end at death, but changes. We read in today’s gospel: The children of this age marry Read More …

  What happen when Zacchaeus encountered Jesus? Zacchaeus’s life was forever changed. Jesus did not forcefully change Zacchaeus’s heart. Rather, Zacchaeus was seeking to see who Jesus was; but could not see him because of the crowd… Much to the Read More …

Two people went up to the temple area to pray, one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The people of Jesus’s time would regard the Pharisees as being honest, righteous and those who were very careful Read More …

Our Scriptures today speak to us about persistence or perseverance. Specifically, about persisting in prayer and in discipleship. Starting with our first reading, we see how Moses persisted in prayer, supported by Aaron and Hur and with God’s help, the Read More …

…and he was clean of his leprosy. Today’s first reading gives us the end of the story of Naaman’s cure from leprosy. The part that we don’t hear about is how Naaman was the commander of the army for the Read More …

Today’s gospel starts with the apostles recognizing the smallness of their faith: The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” Jesus responds by telling them (and us) that even a tiny faith is powerful. We know that when we Read More …

In the Magnificat prayer (Lk1:46-55), Mary prays: He has deposed the mighty from their thrones and raised the lowly to high places. The hungry he has given every good thing, while the rich he as sent empty away. Today’s parable Read More …

Last Sunday, we heard the parable of the prodigal son (Lk15:1-32), a story about the incredible mercy of our God. This Sunday, as we continue with St. Luke’s gospel, we hear the story of the “dishonest steward”. About to be Read More …

Prodigal is usually not a word we use in our everyday vocabulary. We probably don’t say: The billionaire was so prodigal with his money….or…My ice cream was prodigal with toppings. It would not be surprising that when we hear the Read More …

If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. At first glance, this seems contrary to Jesus’s message of loving God and Read More …