Many people claim that they never hear about a loving, caring God in church. Paul’s letter to Titus reveals God’s motive for initiating our salvation—kindness and generous love.

This Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany with examples of various ways God’s presence is revealed.

One’s own experience of family is extremely important in one’s faith development. God calls us to a larger understanding of family than just our family of origin.

The readings this week are full of paradoxes about where to look for great things. 

On this Sunday we are asked to continue our Advent preparation, and to do so with a sense of joy. 

Baruch proclaims that we will be remembered by God. Do I feel remembered?

The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said, “A dying person does not have time for the peripheral or the accidental. He or she is drawn to the essential, the important.”

The feast of Christ the King recognizes the triumph of Jesus, the one who testified to the truth with his words and with his life.

This week the readings convey a sense of imminent crisis, a realization that life has come to a point of fundamental decision. Do I recognize those decision moments in my own life? How about in the lives of people I encounter in my role as minister? 

In today’s scripture, we get two of those forces: bread and power. But the way the characters react makes a difference.