This Gospel passage underscores what a fragile thing, how easily threatened, our sense of identity is as separate individual human beings, our sense of who we are, why we are….

One of the most common scriptural images that is used to represent all of life, but most particularly the spiritual life, the life of grace, is the image of a…

Over these past few weeks, we have taken long and prayerful looks at the core of historical elements from which our creed springs. Christ, who was a real human being,…

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died and was buried, has risen from the dead. And in his resurrection, all of us, yes, you and me, all humankind, all…

The reading of the Passion is from the Gospel of Matthew. The imagery is simple and brutal. It is that of a human being taunted and tortured by other human…

One of the most striking things about the Gospel is how many times the people involved, even the apostles, even Christ’s close friends, Martha and Mary, tried to tell Christ…

This Gospel reading is one of the relatively few incidents that is recorded in each of the four Gospels. But where Matthew, Mark, and Luke report the event, and incorporate…

This Gospel reading we have just heard is one of the longest, richest, and most complex readings to which we are exposed during the course of the liturgical year.  As…

I hope that everyone of us has at one time or another had the experience of being struck with the fact that, at the heart of it all, things are…

The Gospel, like the first reading this weekend, is a story of temptation, the temptation of Christ himself. St Matthew’s account is a series of invitations that Satan offers to…