When it comes to determining the Super Bowl winner chances are that people forget to see what the Bible says about football Just let me go check this out for a minute hellip I rsquo m back It turns out nothing Football is not mentioned once in the Bible not American Canadian or ldquo Soccer

ldquo You are a water jug carrying within you the living water but if water has lost its ability to quench thirst what use is it rdquo ldquo You are a sign but if the sign is hidden beneath seven foot banks of snow who will know the way to go nbsp Dig out the sign from the wintery snow an

A long time ago in a blog far far away hellip I began to discuss the text Verbum Domini the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Benedict XVI on the ldquo Word of God in the life and mission of the Church rdquo Many things have intervened since then such as the end of one semester Christmas

The readings for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time nbsp treat us nbsp to a surfeit of riches There is a beautiful passage from Zephaniah 2 3 3 12-13 another from 1 Corinthians 1 26-31 and the Beatitudes from Matthew rsquo s Gospel 5 1-12a The struggle this week is not what to say but wh

The second reading for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time comes from Paul s first letter to the Corinthians Now I appeal to you brothers and sisters by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you but that you be united in the same m

Today is the Memorial of St Agnes Virgin and Martyr whose life ended when she was just a girl 12-13 though in her own day she would have been considered a girl on the cusp of adulthood It was this precise fact that lead to her martyrdom and though many of the details of her life are shrouded