Sunday, Oct. 13, is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Wisdom 7:7-11; Psalm 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27. Today’s Gospel invites us to wrestle with ...

So he makes what seems to be kind of a harsh statement: "You have to love God more than father, mother, brother, sister, wife, family, children, or you can't be my disciple." At the very end, he says, ...

As you may recall, last Sunday we began Ordinary Time, beginning to listen to the lessons of the Gospel that will tell us about the public life of Jesus. Last Sunday, John the Baptist reminded us that ...

John Clark is a skilled jazz musician known for playing the French horn, an instrument rarely heard in jazz. He began his music career in the 1970s and quickly gained recognition for his distinctive ...

As a Church, we talk a lot about making disciples. What we don’t talk a lot about is the central problem facing the Church today: the struggle to live as a disciple. Right now, the Church is rocked by ...

From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus preached a message that was familiar enough so that those who came to hear him could recognize their religious tradition. At the same time, that message was ...

The late Dutch Catholic priest and spiritual writer Nouwen (The Return of the Prodigal Son) unpacks what it means to be a follower of Jesus in modern society in this excellent posthumous collection of ...

To give up everything and follow Jesus, to leave behind homes and lands and fathers and mothers and children, the disciples first had to be spiritually free. Being spiritually free, becoming ...

As reflected in our Scripture readings at Mass this Sunday, following Jesus Christ is not an easy task. It demands a total death to self and a desire to live only for him and his teachings. Many ...

When I first learned about the Jesus Trail—a 40-mile path winding from Nazareth to Capernaum—I couldn’t help but think: Jesus must have been in incredible shape. We sometimes picture him moving ...