We hear what we listen for. What is it that catches our attention? What sounds, noises and movements capture our interests or perks up our ears and gains our full concentration? Our listening involves ...

Sunday, June 10, is the 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B). Mass Readings: Genesis 3:9-15; Psalm 130: 1-8; 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1; Mark 3:20-35. The first reading today picks up the Genesis ...

Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Christians to walk with Jesus across the desert of Lent, to “listen more closely to the voice of God, and to unmask the temptations that speak within each of us.” Before ...

The Passion narrative we heard on Good Friday raised for me a striking connection to the concerns behind the March for Science and the People's Climate March. The conversation between Jesus and ...

Our eyes look to the Lord our God, until God show us God’s mercy. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy for we have had more than enough. Psalm 123: 3 & 4 For the past several months we had been ...

The Good Shepherd by Letbetter explains, “the artist, Weinert, is saying that the shepherd saves the lamb by kneeling, a posture of humility, ignoring the thorny brush that had entangled the lamb.” ...

The most important thing from today's Scriptures, I think, is the command of God given to Peter, James and John, but also to all of us: listen to Jesus; listen to him. But before we pursue that much ...