As a Church like Notre Dame is considered the Church of churches and The Crysler building is the sky scrapers of sky scrapers, so is the Prodigal Son the Parable of the Parables. Some have even called it the Gospel in the Gospels. This gospel gives the hint at why God...

On trip to Rome, we were told that to be a true Roman you must spend at least one night in the Regina Caeli prison. I actually did prison ministry there so I guess I’m close enough. What is it that initates us in to a society or a culture? A formal decision on our...

Gospel begins at the end of Jesus’ baptism. Jesus fully entered into our nature at baptism so that we may enter into his. We participate in him as he in us. Like iron put in the fire the fire enters into the nature so that within us the fire may dwell. He also entered...

Story of the man who believed his wife was going deaf. He entered the room and asked her a simply question: honey what’s for dinner? No answer. A second time a bit closer: no answer. Finally he got right behind and asked the same question. To which she turned around...

Man with 3 sons: he promised to give his entire inheritance to the one who showed the truest act of charity. 1st son saw a poor man hungry and went and bought him food, the 2nd son jumped into a river to save a drawning boy. The 3rd saw his greatest enemy had rolled...

In May of 1990, John Paul II beatified Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. He went on to call him “A man of the beatitudes” and a man of the century. When we look at the beatitudes, it can be easy to see they are just the weak justifying their lowliness, but what Pier...

The Polynesians represents the area between Hawaii, new zealand and Easter Island. 10 million square miles. An area larger than both Americas. It is inhabited by the same family of people. Advanced system of travel, navigation, able to create a society and travel. It...

An image of hope: a boy who has all the toys but doesn’t want to play because he will break them. Another can find dung and look for a horse. St. Augustine says to be alive we need three things: to believe, to hope and to love. What does hope consist? How are we saved...

The sea of Galilee, a lush place, pours out into the Jordan River where Jesus was baptized empties into the Dead Sea. Nothing flows out, builds up salt As we end the Christmas season, we have celebrated the birth of Jesus, the full manifestation of Jesus in the flesh...

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