“Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?” Think of that image: a burning heart. What is that fire? It can certainly be the fire of love. It can also be the fire enkindled when you begin...

St. Matthew gives us the most dramatic account of the Resurrection of all the four Gospels: the violent earthquake, the angel descending from heaven, etc.. But the basic fact remains the same: the Lord has risen from the dead. The Lord is truly risen. This historical fact, faithfully recounted and...

Jesus knew that he would be crucified. He told his disciples as much a number of times in the three years they were together, though they did not want to hear it. He also knew why he would be crucified. At one level his death was plotted by the Jewish...

To know what true love is, only the Truth Himself can tell us. And that is what these three holy days which have just begun, the sacred Triduum, are all about. Each of these days tells us what the three mains forms of love are. They reveal love’s style, they...

This page from the Gospel of St. John can’t not fill us with immense hope. Over the past ten days or so, here in our parish, no less than four families and all their relatives and friends, have been going through the sadness and distress caused by the death of...