Month: August 2023

La Palabra de Dios siempre provoca nuestra admiración. “¡Qué abismo de generosidad, de sabiduría y de conocimiento el de Dios!” nos dice San Pablo. Siempre que repasamos sus palabras y sus gestos aparece la inmensidad de su misterio. Nos damos …

We have seen, over the past few weeks, that St. Matthew’s Gospel is gradually revealing (or unveiling) who Jesus is: the Son of God. His disciples, for the first half of the Gospel, have had a supremely difficult time “seeing” …

“The field and all that is in it will rejoice; then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy.” Psalm 96, 12

It has been suggested that the “toughest” (or hardiest) plant in the world is the purple …

St. Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. The Aramaic name, bar-Tôlmay, means “son of Tolmay” (Ptolemy) or “son of the furrows” (perhaps a farmer or ploughman). Hence it has been suggested that it is the family …

When the Bible tells us of God’s lavishness and immense generosity, it is usually in reference to God’s justice. St. Thomas Aquinas (and the Catechism of the Catholic Church ) define justice as “the virtue that consists of a constant …

Today’s liturgical celebration, that of the Queenship of Our Lady, occurs on the octave day (the eighth day) of her Assumption. In that feast, a week ago, we celebrated the reunion of Mary with her Son on the day …

Have you ever asked yourself this question: what would be the one thing most difficult for me to give up? If Jesus asked us to do so, what would be the most difficult thing to give up? Would it …

The prophet Isaiah provides the all-important “context” we need for Sunday’s Gospel (Matthew 15, 21-28): “…the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to Him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be His servants,…these I …

En el Evangelio de la Misa de hoy (Mateo 15, 21-28), una mujer pagana toma la iniciativa de acudir a Jesús aunque no pertenece al pueblo judío. Es una madre angustiada que vive sufriendo con una hija “atormentada por un …

This is one of the Sundays of the year when it is especially important to read the Gospel (Matthew 15, 21-28) before coming to Mass. If we wait until the Liturgy of the Word to hear the encounter between Jesus …