The message for today is quite simple – “All is gift.” Everything we see, feel, or possess is a gift from God. In the first reading God’s great mercy on the repeatedly sinful people can only be gift, as He allows everything to be taken away until they realize what...
Many chapters of the Book of Exodus concern the preparations for setting up the Tent of Meeting which the Hebrews carried around with them and set up each time they made camp in the desert. Inside this Tent, in the most holy and inner part of it called the Tabernacle,...
In the reading from the book of Genesis that we just heard the author tell us that God put Abraham to a test. To be honest with you, I have a problem about that. My question is why would God need to test Abraham? Moreover, why would God need to...
The first command of Jesus’ public ministry is not forgive, serve, or even love – it is: Repent. Of all the words he could have chosen it was this word, this challenge, this command which he spoke – Repent! Without preamble it refers us to the reality of sin and...
Both the first reading of today taken from the Book of Leviticus and the Gospel, speak about leprosy. I have often wondered why this particular sickness is mentioned. I am sure that people suffered from different types of ailments, yet leprosy seems to have had such an impact in the...
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...