In the Word column for Easter Sunday, I posed the question, “What if you believe in the resurrection but don’t understand it?” In today’s Gospel, Luke offers answers: be patient, pay attention to how ...

“I will follow you wherever you go” (Luke 9:55). The readings for this Sunday display an intensity and urgency associated with vocation that few of us could claim. Elisha is recruited by the prophet ...

Cambridge, MA. Meeting Jesus on the edge of his religion, that is – in the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent, John 4, where Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. We find here wisdom on what ...

"Here is a group of men who witnessed something otherworldly and magical, but still they are being asked to leave everything for their faith. Even to give up their lives for it … there is still the ...