The Good Word

ldquo This just in Jesus has just responded to a man who asked him to act as an arbitrator in a financial dispute an inheritance issue if I understand correctly issuing in response some sort of general statement regarding possessions and wealth Rachel are you there Rachel hellip We go to Ra

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they gathered together and one of them a scholar of the law tested him by asking Teacher which commandment in the law is the greatest He said to him You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with

Did I ever tell you about my friend Lynn Leibovitz We met in Florence I had finished two semesters of theological studies in Rome and after a year of listening to Jesuits lecturing in Italian a year I passed either writing aerograms or crying I decided that I could definitely use more Itali

For those of you in the Boston area or with a strong desire to come to Boston quickly a conference on Family and Children in the Patristic nbsp Tradition begins tomorrow October 13-15 at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline Massachusetts There are scholars from all ove

Let me speak of feasts I have eaten I can recall most of my life through the prism of food made served and shared I have an early memory of sitting in the kitchen of our Vancouver home after trick or treating as a little boy and eating a hot dog and drinking hot chocolate on a cool Halloween even

Jesus was praying in a certain place and when he had finished one of his disciples said to him Lord teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples He said to them When you pray say Father hallowed be your name your Kingdom come Give us each day our daily breadand forgive us our sinsfor

Profound insights into human life often come when a novelist offers us a scene that is initially hard to imagine at least until we rsquo ve entered it through the writer rsquo s craft Then it suddenly seems patent and true And when the author is a great one the gospel itself is proclaimed beca

Today the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time is also known as Respect Life Sunday nbsp There is a wonderful story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on September 9 2011 that is worth revisiting in this regard It is the story of a courageous young girl Bayza Weeks and the compassionate suppo

Are you hedging your bets Paul in Philippians imprisoned perhaps awaiting death by judicial decree is all in Throughout the letter joyous in tone and content Paul is clear that the life he has chosen as a follower of Jesus is not a life that that he lives with reservations or qualms Paul wi

Today is the Feast Day of Saint Jerome probably the greatest biblical scholar of the Patristic period and a Doctor of the Church Jerome was skilled in translation and is responsible for much of the translation of the Latin Bible that came to be known as the Vulgate He was conversant with the tran