Dust Off Tradition

Three servants are entrusted with their master’s “talents”; the one who fearfully buries his is reprimanded, while those who grow theirs earn the “master’s happiness” and trust. Today we take the hint. We try to share the gifts God gives us. But earliest versions of the parable repeat the phrase

Where Is Jesus?

Where does God “live”? Where do you go to find God? Jesus declared that He was the new temple, the new dwelling place of God in creation. So wherever Jesus is, God is present, too. In His body, which is the church; in the sacraments, especially the Eucharist; in love of and service to others, and in

Embody Your Faith

The addition of today’s feast – the Feast of Corpus Christi, sometimes also called Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – to the church calendar was primarily the result of the work of 13th-century Augustinian nun Saint Juliana of Liège, Apostle of the Blessed Sacrament. During her time working in her convent’s hospital nursing the sick, she reported having numerous visions of the full moon crossed with

The Priests who Survived the Atomic Bomb

Miracles happen daily.

They just don’t get much press.

Why?

“… a small community of Jesuit Fathers living in a presbytery near the parish church, which was situated less than a mile away from detonation point, well within the radius of total devastation. And all eight members of this community escaped virtually unscathed from the effects of the bomb. Their presbytery