If you want to be transformed by the Messiah the first step is to recognize the Messiah in your midst This means being ready to encounter the Son of God wherever you are and whatever time it is This means inclining not just your ear for God rsquo s voice but your heart for God rsquo s presence D

God is for us and for life God after all ldquo did not make death and he does not delight in the death of the living rdquo Death is our enemy and God has joined with us to battle against it The Gospel of Mark invites us to see how God is fighting for us through the stories of a Jewish woman

Even before Darwin scientists were studying the origin of species and though some might think there is a perpetual and permanent war between science and religion it is simply not the case St John Paul II asked in a letter to George V Coyne S J director of the Vatican Observatory ldquo If

The first sign that the kingdom of God is not what you expect comes not so much in Jesus rsquo use of parables to describe it but in the content of those parables Why describe a kingdom by comparing it to the most ordinary of things like shrubs seeds and nesting birds It is a sign that God is n

God chose the Israelites to be his people his nation his children And so they are his children a family established through the covenant God ratified with Abraham At the heart of the covenant was the understanding that Israel ldquo would acknowledge that the Lord is God rdquo and that they wo

Sometimes I find myself in a line-up with a bunch of strangers shuffling down the aisle in church and I forget that I am standing with my family on the pathway to heaven about to partake of the body and blood of Christ offered once for all time for the salvation of the world Perhaps you have walk