The first thing God created was light. “Let there be light.” But the book of Genesis says that before there was light, “the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Our Gospel reading today evokes these same things. Jesus...

“He told me all I have ever done.” These are the words the Samaritan woman spoke to her fellow villagers. She had had five husbands and Jesus surprised, astonished and possibly shocked her by telling her that he knew. Yet, that knowledge of his drew her, not to a fit...

In seminary, when I was being taught some methods on how to pray, one of them involved the use of the senses. The idea was to apply your senses to the scene from the Gospel you were reading. I was doing that in preparing to speak to you today and...

“Be off, Satan!” Adam and Eve were tempted to do wrong and did it. Christ was tempted to do wrong, but did right. We can therefore be tempted either to do wrong or to do right, although we rarely say, “I’m tempted to do the right thing.” Of course, you...