God did not make death, nor does he delight in the destruction of the living. It is a biblical conviction that God made everything good and whole; God made everything beautiful and good. However, the reality is that death marks our life and puts an end to it. In...
Who is this, whom even the wind and the sea obey? For he is the Son of God through whom the Father God made the world and to whom the Father God has subjected all creation. In the first reading that accompanies this Gospel we hear the voice of God speaking also of his...
I will begin this homily with the second reading. First, because it is the clearest and easiest to understand of the three; second, because it deals with a subject of capital importance for our Christian life. St. Paul explains the way in which we Christians assume...
In the fragment of Genesis 3, 9-15 it is related how man became a sinner. It is a story that explores and exposes one of the great enigmas of human existence: our freedom is labile, it easily loses its way and we do what we should not. Instead of making decisions that...
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, the principal sacrament of the Church. What do we mean by the word “sacrament”? The Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1131, says that “the sacraments are efficacious signs...