October 6, 2024
Of course, the Lord’s words in today’s gospel are difficult to hear.
September 29, 2024
To be a Christian, to be moral at all: it requires that you have the capacity to see.
September 8, 2024
The passage from Isaiah and the passage from Mark, put together as they are today, mean to tell us something.
September 1, 2024
It’s good to wash your hands; cleanliness is good. To wash your hands engaged in divine worship, that’s good too. The Pharisees here were not altogether wrong; your mother wasn’t wrong when she told you to wash your hands. The disciples didn’t wash their hands. Maybe they should have. I wash my hands before Mass, before […]
August 4, 2024
What surprises me each time I read it is what they said to him, what they asked him: “Sir, give us this bread always.”[1]