13 January 2016
13 January 2016 Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time In today’s first reading Eli has aged and become like an Appalachian fiddle: the ...
12 January 2016
12 January 2016 Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time We hear so much today about the evils of abortion, same sex “marriage” and physician ...
11 January 2016
11 January 2016 Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel records that at the very beginning of his Public Life, Jesus announced ...
10 January 2016
10 January 2016 The Baptism of the Lord In today’s Gospel we learn that when Christ began his public life people “were filled with ...
9 January 2016
9 January 2016 Saturday after Epiphany The season of Epiphany is ending, and with it the Christmas season. The lights, the joyful gatherings, ...
8 January 2016
8 January 2016 Friday after Epiphany Pope Benedict in his writings has sometimes pondered why people seem to have lost their interest in ...
7 January 2016
7 January 2016 Memorial of Saint Raymond of Penyafort The Christian understanding of “the world” is a complicated concept. The Christian is ...
6 January 2016
6 January 2016 Wednesday after Epiphany Our Faith teaches us that Jesus was true God and true man. And so, as we celebrate the Epiphany, we are ...
5 January 2016
5 January 2016 Memorial of Saint John Neumann, Bishop I am writing this on my last evening in Rome, where I have come to give retreats. Rome is ...
4 January 2016
4 January 2016 The most Holy Name of Jesus What shall we call people? People we don’t know, for example. During the days of Communism, in the ...