On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Published August 2, 2026 Today's Gospel opens not with a miracle but with grief. Jesus has just learned that his cousin, John the Baptist, has been executed by Herod, and his first instinct is deeply human: he withdraws by boat to a solitary place to be alone with his sorrow. Anyone who has ever...
Read reflectionPublished: August 1, 2026 Today's Gospel places us in the uneasy court of Herod the tetrarch, a man haunted by guilt and superstition. When word of Jesus and his mighty works reaches him, Herod's first thought is not...
Read more →Published: July 31, 2026 In today's Gospel, Jesus returns to Nazareth, the town where he grew up, and teaches in the synagogue. The people who hear him are astonished. They recognize the wisdom in his words and sense...
Read more →Published: July 30, 2026 Today's gospel closes out a remarkable string of parables that Jesus has been teaching about the kingdom of heaven, and it does so with an image drawn straight from the daily labor of the fis...
Read more →Published: July 29, 2026 Grief has a way of stripping away pretense. It is one of the few experiences that meets every person, regardless of status, wealth, or achievement, on exactly the same ground. When death ente...
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