On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
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 fishermen who made up so much of his audience. A net is cast into the sea. It sinks...
Read reflectionPublished: 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...
Read more →Published July 28, 2026 Today's Gospel finds Jesus stepping away from the crowds and into the quiet of a house, where his disciples finally ask him to explain the parable of the weeds sown among the wheat. It is a sm...
Read more →Published: July 27, 2026 Today's Gospel gives us two of Jesus's shortest parables, yet they carry an outsized weight for anyone trying to understand how God actually works in the world. Jesus compares the kingdom of ...
Read more →Published: July 26, 2026 Today's Gospel closes out a chapter of parables that Jesus has been teaching beside the Sea of Galilee, and in these final short stories he shifts from describing how the kingdom of heaven gr...
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