Journey to Wholeness
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. … Read the rest
Mary presented Christ the Firstborn in the temple, offering humanity’s renewal to God.
… Read the restWhen the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.
A reflection on 1 John 5:5-13 for Friday after Epiphany: John proclaims three enduring witnesses—the Spirit, the water, and the blood—that testify to Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the source of victory over the world and eternal life.… Read the rest
In November during this Jubilee Year of Hope 2025, I had the privilege of traveling to Italy with a group of pilgrims from Brooklyn and Queens.… Read the rest
… Read the restSome Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
… Read the rest“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
… Read the restBrothers and sisters:
It is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
… Read the restSee what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved,
… Read the restJesus said to the crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
First Week of Lent, Thursday
… Read the rest“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.