Why so many parables? They have been coming at us, it seems, week after week during this liturgical cycle of readings, and all from the Gospel of Matthew. The common…

Sarah had two sisters. The two sisters both knew that Sarah talked a good game, but when it came to follow through—not so good. So, when their mother got sick…

There are times when Jesus, in his message to the disciples, and so to us, really goes against the grain, even to the point where we think to ourselves, I…

Nick was sitting in an RCIA class and found himself really struggling with what the catechist was teaching. The group was having a discussion about mercy and forgiveness, and the…

We all need to be loved. We need to know that someone cares about us, and that we mean something to them. Sometimes by our actions we can be saying…

A famous American preacher was invited to England to give a sermon at St. Andrew’s Parish located out on the edge of London. And, for many years afterwards, whenever he…

There’s a young woman who has had to deal with a very difficult father. The father is an alcoholic who never admitted that he had a problem, and so never…

An older woman sits in her living room alone and in tears. Even though her husband died four years ago, she still gets overwhelmed by waves of depression. Her children…

Joe was in confession, he never liked to go face to face, because the things he had to confess were embarrassing to him. He certainly didn’t want to have to…

In the early 60’s, a monk from Ireland was giving a retreat to other monks at a monastery in Kentucky. At one of his conferences he told this curious story:…

Rachel was often her own worst enemy. All she wanted in her life was to be at peace, to stay calm. But it seemed that most of the time she…

Bill had a son who fell away from the church a number of years ago. This had been a real hardship for him because he and his wife blamed themselves…