St. Luke 5:1-11        We have all felt at some point in our lives like Peter, James, and John when Jesus Christ found them washing their nets after a long night of unsuccessful fishing.  They had worked hard for hours and had caught nothing.  Fis...

Galatians 2:16-20; Mark 8:34-9:1           In celebrating the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, we do something that would have made no sense to anyone at the time of our Lord’s ministry in first-century Palestine.  The cross was then the most feared ...

Galatians 6:11-18; John 3:13-17           One does not have to know very much about the different religions of the world to know that they differ not only in how they answer spiritual questions, but in what questions they ask.  Who is God?  What i...

First Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 4:16-22 It is usually very difficult to learn to see something in a new way, especially when it requires changing how we view ourselves.  It is hard to learn to see our place in the world in a new light, for we easily ass...