We all want to get in first; to find the best spot, to get the first choice, to get the freshest food. The line forms and when you’re first in line, you’re first. When you’re last in line, you’re last. We live our lives …

In in the passages leading up to today’s, Paul has been affirming the centrality of rising from the dead as part of our Christian faith. But then he asks: “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” It is a …

Before retiring from Federal Service 25 years ago, I used to travel frequently.   While traveling and not frantically rushing to the gate to catch my plane, I sometimes would ‘people watch’ the other travelers. There were students and businesspeople engaged with their laptops …

In these three final readings from the first letter to the Corinthians, we begin today the 15th chapter, which discusses resurrection from the dead and its relationship to the resurrection of Christ as a core belief of our Christian faith. In today’s reading (1 Corinthians 15:1–11), …

In today’s First Reading (1 Corinthians 12:31—13:13), we have likely one of the most quoted passages from Paul. We have seen Paul speaking to the Corinthian Christians about the various gifts of the Spirit with which different people are endowed so that they can …

September 15th  If you’ve been Catholic long enough, you surely have seen an image of the Virgin Mary with tears in her eyes and seven swords, or perhaps just one, piercing her heart. She is often dressed in black or navy blue and sometimes …

Every year on the 14th of September we celebrate the feast of The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. While this feast focuses on the cross of Christ, it is not the same celebration that occurs on Good Friday when we enter into the Passion …

The Book of Sirach (sometimes called “Ecclesiasticus”), from which our First Reading today is taken, was originally among the Hebrew ethical teachings and dates from approximately 200 to 175 BC.  Sirach is among the “Wisdom” books in the Bible and is not included in …

(Part Four) Can you imagine a world without abortion? In some ways it is easy, just no more abortion. But think about it all the way through. What does it mean for the world? What might it mean for you? Abortion is the most …

(Part Three) For the past two days, I have expounded on how I have formed my own opinions about respecting those babies who might be killed in an abortion.  I have tried to explain why an unborn child is indeed “human” and has human …