Water into Wine

The sin of lust and the fallout from it has reached epidemic proportions in our current culture. Sexual sin has torn apart marriages, destroyed families and decimated lives, yet we continue to see industries such as pornography, flourish and grow. Jesus has a stern word for us re ...  Show more

The sin of lust and the fallout from it has reached epidemic proportions in our current culture. Sexual sin has torn apart marriages, destroyed families and decimated lives, yet we continue to see industries such as pornography, flourish and grow. Jesus has a stern word for us re ...  Show more

Friends, this week we resume Ordinary Time, and the Church gives us this extraordinary story of the first sign of Christ’s divinity—the miracle at Cana. Why is the first of Jesus’ miracles turning water into wine at a wedding? Because Jesus himself is the marriage of heaven an ...

Friends, on this fourth Sunday of Lent, our Gospel is one of the most magnificent stories in the Gospel of John: the healing of the man born blind. John is a theological master, of course, but also a literary master, and this story is beautifully crafted as a sort of icon of t ...

Friends, there’s something Hemingway-esque about Mark’s Gospel—something very direct and uncomplicated. But in another sense, he shows great literary sophistication, and you see it especially in this famous passage for today: the story of the daughter of Jairus, which is inter ...

Friends, we return this Sunday to Ordinary Time, and the Church gives us a rather extraordinary reading from the first chapter of the Gospel of John. Seeing Jesus, John the Baptist says something that we repeat at every single Mass: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the ...