Every week, Christ invites us to bring our appetites, our hungers here to the table of his love. The Mass itself is a miracle that satisfies our human hungers, so that we can go forth and help alleviate the hungers of others.

Walls and barriers are not of God – they are human made.

We are sent out together (each according to his or her own vocation) to show the world that the kingdom of Christ is at hand.

By the grace of Baptism, we all have the power and the freedom to be prophets for Christ.

There are many helpful instruments of healing, but the ultimate source of healing is the grace of Christ. 

When we find ourselves embedded in a storm, today’s readings encourage us to put our trust in the Lord, whom the wind and sea obey.  

Kingdom gardening depends on our daily sowing of the seeds of faith, hoping that at least a fraction of those seeds will produce a good harvest.

It’s essential for us to have a healthy understanding of who Christ is, to believe that the name of Jesus is the name above all others, and always use words that are true and reverent when speaking about Jesus.

On this Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, let us remember how well God feeds us and that we are what we eat.

We Catholics are like the Holy Trinity, many members making up one big family with all its shared blessings and responsibilities. 

Today we pray that the driving wind of God and the gentle breath of Christ would come our way once more.

We were all anointed at our baptism. Because of the work of the Holy Spirit, we have all been set apart to bear witness to Christ.  But the Holy Spirit needs us to say “yes” to his offer of assistance, and that’s up to us.

“There is no greater love than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Christ loved us so much that he gave his life for us. There is no more convincing evidence of friendship.

Our lives need to be properly aligned, because our actions need to match our words. 

The voice of the Good Shepherd is the voice we want to recognize in the din of our culture today.

Spiritual makeovers begin and end in our faith of the Risen Lord. It takes trust in Jesus to make necessary changes in our lives; it takes a humble yielding of control of our lives to Christ to bring about a graceful transformation.

On Divine Mercy Sunday, let’s heed the prayerful advice of St. Faustina, who gave us this beautiful, simple prayer: Jesus, I trust in you!

Today, we rejoice that in Christ, hope really does spring eternal because in Christ there really are no dead ends, no permanent burial grounds in our lives, no insurmountable obstacles to overcome, no mountains too high to climb.

The story of Jesus’ passion is a story of faithful love in the midst of human suffering.

Jesus speaks in the gospel today about a single grain of wheat that falls to the ground and dies, but then bears much fruit. And as it turns out, Jesus is that grain of wheat.