Jesus' baptism reminds us that he was one of us. He revealed that we humans must allow ourselves to be fragile, seeking and ...

Looking at those first disciples challenges us. It's easy to go to Mass, to sing with a great choir and eat donuts with ...

Last Friday we began a brief look into the command Christ gave to His church, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20, the command that has come to be known as “the Great Commission.” We discovered that, far ...

Most churches (including ours) give people ten times more content than they can live out. Real transformation, we’re ...

Jesus calls us to rhyme our lives with his, just as the New Covenant rhymes with the Old. In past years, the WWJD (“What Would Jesus Do?”) phrase has become popular in some circles. It’s well intended ...

As reflected in our Scripture readings at Mass this Sunday, following Jesus Christ is not an easy task. It demands a total death to self and a desire to live only for him and his teachings. Many ...

Jesus warned his disciples that following him would cost them. Every year at the end of December, people begin to consider the exciting possibilities for themselves in the new year ahead. Whether ...

Jesus returned to Jerusalem for the last time, to die. He had previously tried to prepare his disciples for the calamity, ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls got all the publicity. But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a ...

An exhausted 28-year-old slips into the service 15 minutes late and finds a seat in the back row just in time for ...