In the gospel story today we have this beautiful story of the rich young man who approached Jesus. This is one of the great sorties in the NT and a […]

Our first reading today is of pivotal importance in the Bible because it lays out some of the fundamentals of the relationships between human beings, especially in marriage. The Lord […]

The first reading and the gospel today focus on a problem that is mentioned a lot in the Bible. This is the problem of the church becoming its own worst […]

It’s amazing how many stories in human tradition are driven by jealousy and envy, we could look at the prominent role of jealousy in literature, some of Shakespeare’s plays (Hamlet, […]

The second reading in our mass today reminds us of an age old debate the history of the church, of the relationship between faith and works; this was the debate […]

Our gospel today is taken from the great gospel according to St. Mark – Jesus healing a deaf man who has also a speech impediment. As all of these stories […]

Sincerity and truthfulness are two words that have often been mangled and trivialised in our modern world. When we read in the Media about the numerous revelations of corruption that […]

One of the biggest worries for all of us, who take our faith seriously, is the amount of people falling away from the Church today. We can take heart, when […]

Many years ago, a poor family from a tiny Yugoslavian village emigrated to the United States. It was made up of a father, a mother, a teenage boy, and four […]

‘I’ve had enough’ – these words of Elijah in the first reading of today’s mass resonate with many of us. How many times have we said I’ve had enough? We […]