The Greatest Boast of our Race This Advent we focus on three figures, three saints who help us prepare for the Birth of Jesus.  They are: John the Baptist, St. Paul, and the Virgin Mary.  John the Baptist teaches the seriousness of life. We are here to make a choice and that choice determines where  Read more …

I’m sure you’ve heard and read about how we are supposed to be giving people. While we may accept and agree with that, many of us have an inner dialogue that occurs when God asks us to give something. We wonder why God is asking us to give, especially if we don’t have much to  Read more …

   Are you ready to GIVE BACK? Do you know Him? He is coming. After exhorting us to wait in patience and prayer for days, the readings for this third Sunday direct our attention to two fundamental questions:  Are you ready? Do you know Him? The underlying theme in the scriptures appointed for this mass is  Read more …

One of the bigger issues that we have in churches today is the giving tithes and offerings. However if people really knew and could grasp the concept of how powerful giving tithes and offerings is, not only would everybody start giving, they would also do so with a heart of joy and thanksgiving. Today I  Read more …

“The day will come.” Devastation. Ruin. Emptiness. Is this the fate of the earth?  Jesus himself, in today’s Gospel, saw terrible times ahead, a day coming when not one stone of our human temple will rest on another.  He warned of the signs.  There will be wars and insurrections.  Nations will fight to the death  Read more …

Thomas J. Talley, in The Origins of the Liturgical Year sees the beginning of an advent season in the Fourth Canon of the Council of Saragosa in 380.  In 567, the Synod of Tours established a December fast.  And in 581 the Council of Macon ordered an advent fast for the laity from the Feast  Read more …

God our savior is coming The antiphon of the evening prayer of the Advent Season re-echoes the entire liturgical year. Let us listen to it again: “Proclaim to the peoples: God our Savior is coming”.  At the beginning of Advent, the liturgy invites the church to renew her proclamation to all the peoples and sums  Read more …

Believing God’s promises The readings appointed for this week’s meditation talk about God’s promise to rescue, feed, and deliver his peoples.  These promises are changing points.  The Bible is full of them.  Our life is full of them.  You go through one stage of your life and, while you are in that stage, it looks  Read more …

One of the bigger issues that we have in churches today is the giving tithes and offerings. However if people really knew and could grasp the concept of how powerful giving tithes and offerings is, not only would everybody start giving, they would also do so with a heart of joy and thanksgiving. Today I  Read more …

Do they go together? Can they be separated? Can faith exist without culture? Can culture exist without faith? These questions are at the heart of today’s readings. In the broadest sense of the word, faith and culture are inextricably connected because a culture is always an expression of the faith which informs it. If a  Read more …