Mission Is Who We Are

One of the things that concerns me most about the life of the Church right now is its anxious concern for survival.  That almost always mea...

[Jesus] said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”  And Jesus a...

This week’s Gospel (Mt. 15:21-28) ought to be terribly disturbing to most of us, those of us who have come to faith in the God of Abraham...

I am the first to admit that I’m not a very spiritual person.  It is for this reason that I’ve always had some difficulty with the concep...

As surely as Monday follows Sunday, I know that Joseph, our security guard, will greet me with a friendly smile when I walk in the door at ...

“For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption.”  (Rom. 8:15 )  The spir...

I’ve always loved the Parable of the Sower (Mt. 13:1-9, 18-23).  I realized this week, though, that I’ve been loving it for the wrong ...