Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. (Matthew 11:29) How can Jesus’ “yoke,” (i.e. his challenging teachings) be construed as “easy” and its burden “light?” Jesus’ yoke is...
One summer morning a farmer named Ned was helping his neighbor Willy build a new fence, but the work was going slowly. Finally, Ned deliberately dropped a fence post in a muddy puddle of water, splattering both men with mud. Ned’s wife happened to...
The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Solemnity is formally celebrated on June 12. On that date, Bishop Piotr Sawczuk of the Diocese of Drohiczyn elevated the Church of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, in Milejczyce...
An excellent book on end of life issues is To Die Well by Stephen Doran, MD. He writes: “‘Put it out of its misery.’ So many times we may have heard that phrase used to justify the killing...
To be sure, people have different ideas of who are more hateful—Republicans or Democrats, religious people or irreligious—Northerners or Southerners, older generations or younger, and so on. But one thing most of...
Consider the greatest problem facing the Catholic Church in the U.S. and how each of us can help solve it. During the past 60 years, each succeeding generation born to devout Catholics has contained a smaller number of...
Although Jesus used this figure of speech, the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them. John 10:6 In the Gospel passage (John 10:1-10) for the 4th Sunday of Easter, we find this warning about guarding...
”Sadako was a little Japanese girl caught in the bombing of Hiroshima. She saw her mother and father and the rest of her family destroyed right before her eyes. She herself had severe radiation burns. She was in a...
At times, when we find it hard to persevere on the right path, or whenever we notice weakness in our faith, we might say to ourselves: “If only I had lived at the time of Jesus’ physical presence, I would have been one...
We rarely notice how quickly it happens. We meet someone for the first time, or even reconnect with someone we have known for years, and almost reflexively the question emerges: “What do you do?” It is meant to be...
Holy Mother Church has given us this page of John’s gospel (John 20: 19-31) so that we may be among the blessed ones. She wants us to be among those who, although they have not seen, have believed, nonetheless. She...
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