We are going to look at three things here today. 1st) pain and suffering, 2nd) proclaiming the good news, and 3rd) who do we take our troubles to? Let’s first look at our reading from Job. “Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those...
In the First Reading, we heard of God’s promise to Moses that He would raise up for us a prophet. This is only one of God’s many promises that were made and are found in the Old Testament, each of them having been fulfilled through Jesus Christ as revealed in...
During today’s First Reading from the Book of Jonah, we heard how Jonah answered God’s calling. Jonah was called by God and told to get up and to go to Nineveh, that great city, where he was to proclaim the message of the Lord. In obedience to the Lord God,...
The theme of the readings this week and this weekend is crystal clear: God calls us. If we had ears we would hear God calling all day long. He calls adults, children, sick people, people at work, people on holidays, sinful people, holy people. God never stops calling – all...
Today is the true Christmas for Eastern Catholics – those from the Byzantine and Maronite rites, among others. For them, this feast is about Christ’s birth, baptism and presentation to the world. The Western church uses this feast to continue the story from the announcement of Christ’s birth, first to...