On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
There is something achingly human about the crowd's question to Jesus in today's Gospel. They had just witnessed the miracle of the loaves and fishes — bread multiplied from almost nothing, thousands fed on a hillside — and yet they ask Him: "What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in ...
Read reflectionThere is a restlessness in the human heart that no meal can satisfy. We pursue, we acquire, we consume — and still the hunger returns. The crowd in today's gospel knows this restlessness intimately. Just a day earlie...
Read more →There is something painfully relatable about Cleopas and his companion on the road to Emmaus. They are walking away from Jerusalem, the city where everything had fallen apart. Just days before, the man they had stake...
Read more →There is something painfully familiar about the scene that opens today's Gospel. Evening has fallen. The disciples of Jesus climb into a boat and push off from shore toward Capernaum. The One they love is not with th...
Read more →There is a moment in today's gospel that is easy to rush past, hidden quietly inside the drama of a crowd, a hillside, and a miracle that defies ordinary arithmetic. Before Jesus multiplies the loaves and the fish, b...
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