View from the Ambo/Mercy With Teeth

This week , we hear the great analogy of the grain of wheat. Jesus uses this image to describe what He is about to do by dying, that He will...

This weekend , we hear perhaps the most well-known and oft-quoted verse of all of Scripture: “For God so loved the world that He gave His on...

A few years ago, I read about a social scientist's observations of school children on a playground. He realized that the playground had ...

The Narrative of the transfiguration is read every Second Sunday of Lent. Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up Mount Tabor. The landscape i...

This weekend, as we do every first Sunday of Lent, we hear of Jesus’s temptation in the desert and Jesus’s beginning ministry and proclamati...

In the weeks of Lent, I will be writing a paragraph or two of the core of my Sunday homily. I plan on giving a series on types of prayer tha...

Lent is a blessed time in the Church year. The season was first experienced by the Catechumens (those who were to be baptized at the Easter ...