“Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, ‘We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that ...

During their wilderness wanderings, the people of Israel often grumbled. They grumbled against Moses and Aaron. Really, they grumbled against the Lord since Moses and Aaron were His spokesmen. An ...

Perhaps the first part of today’s Gospel, which refers to the bronze serpent, an event in the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament, may cause some confusion, especially among the fundamentalist ...

Odd, to compare Jesus to a snake, isn’t it? “Christ, the snake” sounds toxic, weird, perhaps blasphemous. And, when we are acquainted with an obscure text from the Hebrew scriptures, biblical. Most ...

Find today’s readings here. For Christians, reading the Old Testament in light of the New Testament is sometimes almost like a game: Where is Jesus hiding? How is Jesus prefigured this time, in a ...

When God delivered the nation of Israel from Egypt, it wasn’t very long until the people began their constant complaining and rebelling against God, Moses and even Aaron at times. Because of their ...

To know how much God loves us, we only have to contemplate the Crucifix: a tortured man, a God," emptied of divinity"," dirtied" by sin. But a God whose self-abasement forever destroys the real name ...

As noted last Sunday, the Church offers two possible Gospels for the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent. That’s because, although the Sunday readings are on a three-year cycle, the “scrutiny” ...

People have asked me what the value of seeing Jesus is. They say, “You talk about seeing Jesus all the time. What value is there in doing that? I’d rather you give me principles for success. It’s more ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday told Christians not to wear the crucifix only as a symbol of belonging but to look to Jesus on the cross as He who died for our salvation. The pope’s words came during morning ...