On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Today's gospel reading confronts us with one of the most powerful images in Scripture: Christ the King seated on his throne of glory, separating humanity as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. But this is no ordinary judgment scene. What makes this passage remarkable is the criteria by which ...
Read reflectionCarlo Acutis died in 2006 at the age of fifteen. He was beatified in 2020. His body lies incorrupt in Assisi, dressed in jeans and a tracksuit — at his own request. He was, by every account, a normal Italian teenager...
Read more →Today's Gospel reading takes us into the wilderness with Jesus, where He faces three powerful temptations from the devil after forty days and nights of fasting. This passage, read every year on the First Sunday of Le...
Read more →Jesus sees Levi sitting at his tax booth—a man despised by his community, considered a collaborator with Roman oppression, a symbol of greed and betrayal. Yet Jesus doesn't walk past him. He doesn't condemn him. Inst...
Read more →The disciples of John the Baptist approach Jesus with a straightforward inquiry: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, while your disciples do not fast?" On the surface, this seems like a reasonable question. Fasting wa...
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