
Speaking to the Soul: Scarcity and fear or abundance and love?
Is there a time you’ve reacted from your old pattern of scarcity and fear, only to have been handed back abundance and love?

Is there a time you’ve reacted from your old pattern of scarcity and fear, only to have been handed back abundance and love?

Whether I need healing or curing or just some peace, I can look to the centurion as an example of taking problems to Jesus and letting him solve them.
Gratitude is a good thing, but today’s gospel shows how prayers of thanksgiving can go awry.

Feast day of John XXIII -elected to be a “stop-gap” pope who would reign for a short, uneventful time, he surprised everyone by convening the Second Vatican Council, an assemblage out of which came breath-taking new understandings, not only for the Catholic church but for all of us.
How many omens and secret signs of the apocalypse will we see today? Our Scriptures advise us to ignore them.

Evil has met its match. God’s unconquerable love is revealed in the astounding identity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of the World.
Every day seems to bring us some new presidential candidate’s vision. Let’s fill our hearts with the hopes for just leaders expressed in Psalm 72.

By comparing Mary’s visit to Elizabeth with David bringing the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem we recognize that Mary is the unseen ark who carries the living word of God.

She was convicted as a heretic and burned at the stake in 1431. Twenty-five years later, her case was appealed and the Pope declared her to have been falsely accused. Almost 500 years later, she was canonized as a saint.
Ministry fatigue setting in? Today’s Scriptures have a one-verse pep talk for us.