Month: February 2024

The elusive February 29th rolls around again this year, as it does in all years that are divisible by four — unless, oddly, they are years that are divisible by 100 but not by 400! This quirky adjustment to the …

As has been true in every age, there are people today who want some special “signs” from God in order to believe. This Lenten season has been reminding us that we have the Good News of the New Testament …

At the heart of “the ongoing work of discipleship” is our willingness to go where Jesus leads and walk in His way. He teaches that His way is self-giving service of others … and not ever lording anything over them. …

Have you ever opened your Bible to compare, for example, a couple of Gospel texts? Such an exercise would bear fruit like this gem: in St. Matthew’s account of the Beatitudes, Jesus says, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is …

Since the beginning of the new year, we have been hearing at our Sunday Masses from the first chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel. We have heard how Jesus drove out a demon, how He healed a leper, how He healed …

Cada vez tenemos menos tiempo para escuchar. No sabemos acercamos con calma y sin prejuicios al corazón del otro. No acertamos a escuchar el mensaje que todo ser humano nos puede comunicar. Encerrados en nuestros propios problemas, preocupados por el …

In Sunday’s Gospel reading (Mark 9, 2-10) Sts. Peter, James, and John are taken up a high mountain by Jesus, and there they have an experience of Jesus which takes their breath away. It was an experience that was so …

Celebrando el segundo domingo de la Cuaresma, vamos a escuchar en la Misa que el hecho de la muerte salvadora de Jesús se expresa en su Resurrección, con la que el Padre legitima toda la aventura histórica de Jesús, …

The Christian moral life is one that seeks to cultivate and practice virtue. According to the Catholic Catechism, “A virtue is an habitual and firm disposition to do the good. It allows the person not only to perform …

The Universal Church celebrates today the “Feast of the Chair of Peter.” What is being celebrated, actually, is the unity of the Church. This is so because the principal diocese of the Catholic Church is Rome, and the Pope is …