Most of us are very familiar with the natural order of things.
Water is wet, objects fall to earth because of gravity, and so on. On the whole, people also behave in predictable ways as creatures of habit. While it’s true that we may occasionally surprise each other.
Aug. 2 — Mt 14:13-21
The Gospel for this Sunday presents us with one of Christ’s miracles of feeding, multiplying five loaves and two fish so that they might feed more than 5,000 people.
A young adult man was thinking about the apostles as he walked to Mass one day. He reflected on how amazing it was that, when Jesus called them, they left everything behind immediately: fishing nets, boats, family, and friends.
Our Gospel this Sunday contains Matthew’s classic parable of the sower and the seeds scattered on different types of soil. Sandwiched in the middle, between the parable itself and the interpretation given by Our Lord, is a fascinating little dialogue that begins with the question given to Jesus: Why do you speak to them in parables?
One sympathizes with Jesus in our Gospel today, looking out upon the crowds of the world and seeing them troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. All it takes is a glance at the morning or evening news to realize that our world still needs Christ and his appointed shepherds, perhaps now more than ever.
The feast of Corpus Christi brings with it an incredible variety of expressions of belief in and love for Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist.
“It is not good for the man to be alone,” God said of Adam in the garden, before the creation of Eve (Gen 2:18). But it is fair to ask, “Why was it not good?” After all, everything God created up to that point was called “good.”
May 10 — Jn 14:15-21
Christ in this second-to-last Sunday of Easter makes a grand promise to his disciples and to us.
Have you ever spent considerable time looking for something that was right in front of you all along? It’s quite amazing how easily we can fail to see the obvious, especially when it is staring us in the face.
“Peace be with you.”
These words of Jesus, spoken to the Apostles after his Resurrection, capture for us exactly the spirit with which we can and should experience this Easter season.
