The readings challenge us: “I have set before you reputation and wisdom, comfort and eternal life.” What will we choose?

We are no longer content to live with full bellies but empty minds.

The Third Sunday of Advent invites us into a world of reversals.

Today’s Gospel seems to challenge fairness, preferring concern for the “last.”

Jesus' parable states that all church order is subject to the law of mercy and forgiveness.

“Denying one’s self” is more profound than daily acts of “mortification.” It means displacing one’s self from the center of our consciousness while looking to the true self embodied by Jesus’ teaching.