Routine is part of life; what shouldn’t be part of it is forgetfulness of the reason and purpose of our life’s routines.
Love desires what is good for the other person; it also embraces and respects his freedom.
Learning lessons from the five unwise virgins of Scripture.
On the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Assumption into Heaven
The Father affirms Jesus in the work he has done and in the task that still lies ahead.
Sorrow and pain are part of life. Allowing ourselves time to go through them is normal and good, but at some point Jesus invites us to “pick up our mat and walk”. And he’ll be walking with us.
There’s something hidden deep in the simplicity of ordinary everyday life, something that gives a joy like no other.
We have not been called to a life of ease and complacency, but to a life of greatness.
In touching Jesus’ wounds Thomas found healing for his own.
Peter and John heal a crippled beggar and two of Jesus’ disciples meet him on the road to Emmaus.
When the pains and burdens of life overwhelm and even blind, listen to Jesus calling your name.
God’s compassion, His empathy for us, is the source of our ability to put ourselves in the other’s shoes and to overcome fear itself.
Christ is risen! The chains that have bound us are broken, the doors of the cells that have imprisoned us have swung wide open. We are free!
Jesus’ death on the cross is the final unmasking of the world’s pretensions to power and greatness, revealing it to be nothing but a hollowed-out shell.
Jesus forever transformed the meaning of power; he called it ‘service’.
Jesus entered his passion without fear, and with full control, laying down his life willingly, because his will was one with the Father’s.
Jesus wasn’t just handing Judas a piece of bread, he was handing himself, if only to remind him perhaps, one last time, of their friendship.
There’s an extravagance to love that is deep, passionate and complete. It is the key to having no regrets in life.