At Masses around the world every day, millions of people, in the words of the gospel, “eat and drink” with the Lord—would Jesus disown any of them, the way the master does in the gospel story?

Some folks dissolve in a crisis and are no good to anyone, least of all themselves. But others shine in the critical hour.

I’ve come to start a fire on this earth—how I wish it were blazing right now!

Chicago fourth-grader Charlie Mahay likes meeting kids who are different from him simply because “they’re interesting,” he says.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

There is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for his own great sacrifice of boundless charity.