Mercy Always Has the Last Word
We come to the end of another year in the life of the Church. The calendar will turn again, as it always does, but this Sunday asks a deeper question: […]
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Don’t Sweat It
History reminds us: we have always lived with uncertainty. The ground shifts beneath our feet, nations rise and fall, and life can change in a heartbeat. In a world like
The Church That Lives in Us
Today we keep the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome—the Church’s ancient “mother church.” Many imagine St. Peter’s as the Pope’s own cathedral, yet it is
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Dead Sea. Living Water.
There are some questions that are not really questions at all — they are traps. In today’s Gospel the Sadducees confront Jesus with one of those questions. They do not
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He’s Calling Your Name
Every human heart longs for a place of safety. We look for a shelter from the storm, a hand strong enough to hold us, a love that will not let
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What Stinks?
There comes a time—a moment of clarity, sharp as truth itself—when one realizes the painful yet unmistakable reality that something stinks. This sermon names it directly: you can sense it
The Simple Truth That Saves
From the dawn of history, people have longed to lift themselves up. We built towers to reach the heavens, temples to show our devotion, monuments to prove our greatness. Yet
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The Widow Who Would Not Quit
How to Keep Praying When You’re Tired of Praying “Jesus told this parable, Luke tells us, to teach the disciples “the necessity of praying always and not losing heart” (Lk.
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The Politics of Pity
There are few cries in Scripture as raw, as urgent, as utterly human as this one: “Jesus, Master, have pity on us.” Ten men, marked by disease and stigma, stand
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Farther In, Farther Out
C. S. Lewis once wrote, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see
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Doorway to the Kingdom
The rich man didn’t hate Lazarus. But the real tragedy—the one that makes this story a doorway to the Kingdom and not just a tale of warning—is that he didn’t
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How Will We Know?
The words are ancient, but the message is as current as tomorrow’s headlines: “You cannot be the slave both of God and money.” It’s a line we’ve heard before. But
A Feast of Grace
They were muttering again. The religious leaders, the scribes, and the Pharisees couldn’t help themselves. “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them,” they say (Luke 15:2). Their disdain curled
The Center That Holds
Today’s Gospel episode begins with a crowd. Luke tells us that “great multitudes” were traveling with Jesus (Luke 14:25). They were walking with Him—perhaps hoping for miracles, maybe expecting a
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The Lobster Knows the Deep
Gérard de Nerval, the French Romantic poet, once walked the streets of Paris with a lobster on a pale blue ribbon. That is not a metaphor. It was a living
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Meekness with Muscle
William Barclay, the beloved Scripture scholar and writer, once told the story of a gentle man named Basil Oliver. Basil was eighty-five years old when he died. Some called him
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Not for Applause, but for the Echo
In the mid-19th century, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard issued a warning that now seems eerily prescient. He foresaw the rise of what he called “the present age”—an age not
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Stuck Between Floors
Is That Where Your Treasure Is? In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl wrote, “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’” That why might
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What Now?
Money is not required to buy a single necessity of the soul The late American humorist Art Buchwald once said, “The best things in life aren’t things.” Then there was
Life Without Coffee?
What is Life Without God? In 1675, King Charles II of England attempted to ban coffeehouses, deeming them a threat to public safety. Why? Not because of the drink itself
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