Do We Need Healing from Blindness?
There is a profound teaching in today’s Gospel. Obviously, it is the story of Blind Bartimaeus of which we know little except that his...
Jesus Had 2 Natures, So Do We
One of the elements of history I love to teach best is the story of the Copernican Revolution. I taught it the other night in...
Living the Spirit of the Law
Today’s Gospel addresses probably the biggest fight in Christianity outside of faith vs works. In fact, it may be based in the fight...
Suffering and Death in the Catholic Vision
Today’s second reading comes to us from the letter to the Hebrews. The author is unknown. One feature of it is the suffering of Jesus and...
St. James, The Rich and the Poor
I always get a kick out of when people claim that the Bible is so old it is no longer relevant to us today. It reminds me of a an...
What Have We Become?
This week, I learned of two situations in which people’s reactions led to others to cry out: What have we become?” One was a case that...
Ephphatha
The last part of the Baptismal rite is called the Ephphatha which is the word that Jesus speaks to the deaf man and heals him. However,...
The Danger of Hubris
I was looking over the readings last Monday and I saw of course the list of vices we see in today’s gospel. If you look carefully most of...
The Revolutionary Teaching on Marriage
Today’s second reading is one of those controversial ones that get people to reject our faith because they feel the teachings do not...
Homily: The Hope that Changes Everything
Today is the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary. This was declared a dogma of the Church in 1950 by Pope Pius XII but it had since the...
