“Rise and Come forward”.  Jesus spoke these words to a man He had singled out in a synagogue almost 2022 years ago.  For us, these words also express our mission and our faith.  Our passion is for people.  For many, life-changing treasures in the Church have remained “buried”.  The Scriptures, the sacraments, the lives of  Read more …

Tested but not tempted by God The Old Testament reading (Gen 22:1-18) appointed for today recounts Abraham’s faith test. God tested Abraham’s trust in Him in a totally unexpected way. God used Abraham to picture the greatest example of His love—long before Jesus gave His life for us. This conversation between God and Abraham was the  Read more …

There’s something strangely comforting about the messy stories of God’s saints in Scripture.  We might expect the heroes of the Bible to go from one episode of obedience to the next, successive faith victories on the path to eternal glory. But that’s not what we find in the Bible.  Take Abraham, for instance.  In Genesis  Read more …

Adoration, also known as “benediction of the blessed sacrament” or “Eucharistic adoration” or simply “holy hour” is adoring or honoring the Eucharistic Presence of Christ. In a deeper sense, it involves “the contemplation of the Mystery of Christ truly present before us”.  Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love.  In the sacred Host, He  Read more …

St Peter has a warning for you today: “God resisteth the proud… be sober, be vigilant because the devil is on the lookout…humble yourselves therefore….”   St Bernard, asked to list the four cardinal virtues, answered: “humility, humility, humility and humility” .  And O. Hobart Mowrer once said, “You alone can do it, but you  Read more …

The Sacred Heart is among the less familiar and less known of Anglican-Catholic devotional images. But its symbolism is profound and inspiring. As we marked the Feast of the Sacred Heart this week, here is a look at the explanation behind some of the features of the Sacred Heart. The flames  The Sacred Heart most obviously brings  Read more …

Party or Perish! Last Sunday featured an intense and shocking parable about our readiness, our fruitfulness, and our decision to accept and enter the Kingdom of God or not.  The Lord has used the story of a rich man and a poor man named Lazarus.  This parable is shocking and speaks to the great and  Read more …

Heaven and Hell Today’s story in the gospel reading is about the rich man in Hell and the poor in Heaven. First of all, Jesus teaches here that heaven and hell are both real, literal places. Sadly, many preachers shy away from uncomfortable topics such as hell. Some even teach “universalism” – the belief that  Read more …

We celebrate the body and blood of Christ not as isolated objects of adoration but as food and drink, like the manna in the desert and the water brought forth from a rock. Jesus makes it very clear how we are to approach his body and blood: “If you do not eat the flesh of  Read more …

GOD IS RICH AND MYSTERIOUS  G.K. Chesterton once said that one of the reasons he believed in Christianity was because of its belief in the Trinity.  If Christianity had been made up by human person, it would not have at its very center a concept that is impossible to grasp or explain: the idea that  Read more …