Here is your God
John questions Jesus from prison in today's Gospel -- for his disciples' sake and for ours. He knows that Jesus is doing "the works of the Messiah," foretold in today's First Reading and ...
Kingdom come
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand," John proclaims. And the Liturgy today paints us a vivid portrait of our new king and the shape of the kingdom He has come to bring. The Lord whom John prepares the ...
In a dark hour
Jesus exaggerates in today's Gospel when He claims not to know the day or the hour when He will come again. Christ occasionally makes such overstatements to drive home a point we might otherwise miss ...
Kingdom of the Son
Week by week, the Liturgy has been preparing us for the revelation to be made on this, the last Sunday of the Church year. Jesus, we have been shown, is truly the Chosen One, the Messiah of God, the ...
'Today' is the day
It is the age between our Lord's first coming and His last. We live in the new world begun by His life, death, Resurrection, and Ascension, by the sending of His Spirit upon the Church. But we await ...
Body building
Why commemorate a church dedication that happened in fourth-century Rome? First, because St. John Lateran is no ordinary church -- it's the cathedral church of the pope and still known as "the mother ...
All souls
When St. Paul talked about the resurrection of the dead with the philosophers at Athens, many laughed and mocked him (Acts17:32). The Gospel, he would later write, is "foolishness" to the wise of this ...
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Jesus draws a blunt picture in today's Gospel. The Pharisee's prayer is almost a parody of the thanksgiving psalms (see for example Psalms 30, 118). Instead of praising God for His mighty works, ...
