I had a hard time coming up with a theme for this column, but then, while fixing lunch, I got, “God’s Presence.” So let’s talk about this and see if ...

The liturgy of the sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time is based on the following readings: Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Psalm86; Romans8:26-27; Matthew13:24-43. The main theme is on God’s presence and work in ...

Showing up makes God’s love tangible when people need it most. My first deathbed visit as a pastor was with a person I’d never met. On the drive over, I wondered what I would say and if I’d be able to ...

Walter Wangerin, a widely recognized writer on the issues of faith and spirituality, wrote: “The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow ...

As the Church walks through the great Sermon on the Mount in the Mass, we are all reminded of the way of love and the life that we are called to live as followers of the Lord Jesus. It is an immense ...

Many people experience God at work in the world, but they lack the words to understand that experience. In this Sunday’s first reading, for example, Cornelius had already encountered the Spirit before ...

Stepping inside the chapel at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Aaron Buttery was transformed. As the often-forgotten, neglected and reviled men shuffled to worship in San Diego’s only state ...

attempt to respond to him in our actions; however, we approach him as one who will always be absent to us while we remain in something we now must call “our present state.” traces of God found in ...