Just over 150 years ago, in 1873, a Belgian priest named Father Joseph Damien de Veuster was sent to minister to lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. He was filled with missionary zeal and a desire to be of service, and upon arrival, he visited...
A Notre Dame professor (The Hidden Things, OSV, July 9-15, 2023, pp. 15) has wonderfully noted that the instruction of Jesus for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time comes to us after three key things have occurred: REPENTANCE. In Mt 3:1-3, John the...
On this 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, our Gospel passage and second reading have a few powerful sentences with which we are familiar, yet they might have lost their edge precisely because we heard them so many times before. Hence, by now, they might...
