Journey to Wholeness
In the peaceable kingdom, a little child leads lion and lamb, restoring Eden’s glory to humankind.
… Read the restThe calf and the young lion shall browse together,
with a little child to guide them.
“Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire,” the prophet Isaiah rails in the opening chapter of his scroll (1:7a). Judah and Jerusalem are riddled with injustice, hypocrisy, murder, thievery, rebellion, and every sort of corruption.… Read the rest
The path to peace leads to final restoration (shalom)—yet it is only reached through millennia of personal, communal, and cosmic growing pains in God’s unfolding creation.… 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.’
What does the parable of the persistent widow reveal about perseverance in prayer?
… Read the restThen he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He
How does a Samaritan’s thank you reveal the power of gratitude in faith?
… Read the restAs he continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.
What does it mean to love beyond consanguinity and place Christ above all earthly ties?
… Read the restGreat crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them, “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
How does Jesus’ healing of the crippled woman reveal what it truly means to be set free on the Sabbath?… Read the rest
Are we faithful stewards, tending the Lord’s vineyard with love?
… Read the restBe sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
True blessedness lies in hearing and keeping God’s word, as exemplified by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
… Read the restAs he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!”