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Luke 9

Christendom has grown in the course of the centuries through poverty.  How many mendicants and saints have voluntarily renounced money and possessions to walk the way of the imitatio Christi?  […]

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Judge not, that you be not judged (Matthew 7:1)

Every human being, each of us, bears a burden throughout our life. In the course of life that burden becomes ever heavier. It can even become ballast that weighs us […]

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Rise, let us go hence! (John 14:31)

You can call the 21st century, more than any earlier era, the age of uprooting.  That applies first of all to the armies of refugees who have no homeland anymore, […]

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“I am the true vine.” (John 15:1)

“I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-dresser.  Every branch of mine that bears no fruit He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He […]

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The Highest Heaven

The entry into Jerusalem and the commotion it causes is an eloquent example of the saying: children, drunks, and fools speak the truth. The crowd that welcomes Jesus is drunk […]

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Feeding the Five Thousand (John 6)

For our earthly understanding, the feeding of the five thousand is an incomprehensible wonder, a miracle.  But for Jesus’ contemporaries it was also incomprehensible, witness the question asked by Andrew: […]