The gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent is the testing of Jesus in the wilderness After fasting for forty days Jesus is subjected to the devil s temptations I have always been struck by how the devil prefaces his first two attempts to trip up Jesus at least in Matthew s account If

Jesus does not talk about the story of Adam and Eve though Paul does giving it a powerful interpretation that may overwhelm our initiative to continue to reflect on it But Paul s view is not the only way forward here The Genesis story treats in a sophisticated and subtle way the profound que

Many avocations contribute greatly to the well-being of all of us to whatever happiness we might have on this earth Among these avoctions is teaching And a great promoter of teaching us when we first need learning is John Bosco His feast day January 31 recalls the vital significance of teac

There are so many passages in the Bible that lend themselves to the development of an ecojustice perspective Such a section is found in the Wisdom of Solomon a relatively little known and even less frequently cited source of ancient Israelite wisdom It is a reinterpretation of an earlier traditio

St Luke tells about the conversion then missioning of St Paul on three different occasions Acts 9 22 and 26 nbsp Though the number of details which change in these three accounts is great there is one repeated phrase which runs through them all nbsp Saul Saul why do you persecute Me nb

When lecturing on Paul s first letter to Corinthians Daniel J Harrington S J my colleague at Weston Jesuit School of Theology tells our students that there are no problems in the Church today that did not exist in some form in the early church at Corinth This insight can be consoling