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In this episode, the Pharisees, together with the Herodians, lay a trap for Jesus by trying to draw him into the political controversies of the day. The Herodians, for their part, were not natural allies of the Pharisees. They were, as their name suggests, supporters of Herod, the Roman puppet king, and thus collaborators with…
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Once again we find ourselves with another parable about a vineyard, but whereas the last few Sundays the focus of these parables has been on God’s mercy, has been on the fact that God allows ample time and ample help in order that sinners might turn from their wickedness and be saved, here the emphasis…
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No matter what circumstances we find ourselves in, we always have it within our power, aided by grace, to choose Christ, to conform our wills to that of the Father. That grace helps us in this we find explicitly confirmed in scripture, as St. Paul reassures the Corinthians by saying: God is faithful and will…
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Everyone knows that as Christians, we are called to forgive. Indeed, forgiveness might be the paradigmatic Christian action, since Jesus came to forgive sins, and even as he was dying on the Cross he was forgiving his executioners.
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St. Peter Claver, whose feast we celebrate today, like many young Spaniards in his day, was drawn to the noble task of serving in the New World missions. Leaving Spain forever, the young Jesuit left for the Mission of Columbia, where he was ordained in Cartagena in 1616. He would go on to spend the…
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St. Athanasius has a famous line in his On the Incarnation, which is quoted in the Catechism, in which he says, “The Son of God became man so that we might become God.” This does not, of course, mean that Christ came in order that we might be become God in the sense of sharing…
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As you probably know, I love to whitewater kayak, and especially during the summer you can find me basically everyday that I have off and every Sunday afternoon on the Ocoee River near my hometown of Cleveland, TN. Now on the Ocoee, literally on just a handful of rocks, there grows a species of flower…
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We read in Isaiah that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and so my thoughts than your thoughts. We saw a demonstration of this in last Sunday’s gospel, when Peter confessed Jesus to be the Christ, the Son of the Living God, a confession that…
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But who do you say that the Son of Man is? This question that our Lord directed to his disciples in Caesarea Philippi is a question that every Christian, and indeed, given the global reach of Christianity, every person, Christian or not, must answer. The question of who Jesus is is a question that, once…
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This deliverance of the Canaanite woman’s daughter is one of those episodes in the gospels that, at first blush, might cause us confusion, as Jesus seems to behave strangely. Yet whenever Jesus challenges us in the gospels, whether it be by his words or by his actions, there is, within that challenge, always an invitation…
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