Our curiosity about the authors of the New Testament always seems to outrun the sparse information that survived the church’s early years of dispersion and persecution. Nevertheless, we do have this brief description of the man behind the Third Gospel in an anonymous manuscript dating back to about 160 a.d. More »

Psalm 121. Israel—that is, all the faithful people of God—can always rely on God’s protection. A Song of Ascents. More »

Most of the gospel readings for Sundays are taken from the Gospel of Luke. In his gospel, and in his Acts of the Apostles, St. Luke loves to tell stories about how God empowers people to experience a deep conversion—to repent of their sins, change their lives, and believe in Jesus Christ. More »

Paul’s distress over the state of the Galatians is evident in these impassioned words. However, while Paul had become exasperated with the Galatians, he did not walk away from them. More »

At the core of Thérèse’s spirituality was her awareness of Jesus’ invitation to intimacy with him in which heart speaks to heart. More »

I remember well the years immediately after the Second Vatican Council. The second half of the 1960s was an interesting time to be a Catholic—to say the least. One never knew what to expect next. More »

“You are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing.” — Luke 10:41-42 More »

At first glance, Jesus’ words to his disciples might seem quite harsh. Essentially, he told them that if they just do what he commands, they are “unworthy servants.” So, was he expecting them to slave even harder? More »