Daniel went to his mother demanding a new bicycle for Christmas Danny we can t afford it she said so write a letter to Jesus and pray for one instead Dear Jesus I ve been a good boy this year and would appreciate a new bicycle Your Friend Daniel Now Danny guessed that Jesus really

The Transfiguration is a unique event in the life of Jesus and appears in all three of the Synoptic Gospels I call it unique for a number of reasons 1 It is the one event in Jesus earthly ministry in the Synoptic Gospels in which Jesus glory is made manifest visually unless we include th

Brothers and sisters What will separate us from the love of Christ Will anguish or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or the sword No in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels

Over a number of weeks now the Liturgy has been offering readings from Romans 8 This chapter means to build on and reverse the disheartening reality of Chapter 7 highlighted in Paul famous saying I know what is right and I want what is right but I do what is wrong who will save me from th

The Fourth of July is a most appropriate time to recall a discussion St Paul had in his First Letter to the Corinthians There in a dialogue form he hears someone s saying to him Everything is lawful to me Paul s responds But I do not want anything to dominate me He is thinkin

The feastday of St Thomas the Apostle is over but there remains a consideration that is valuable for undersanding the Gospel of John in which Thomas s story occurs The Thomas story is the story that completes John s presentation of the Jesus event John 21 while inspired Scripture