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Following Jesus has never been easy. Every day we must choose our treasures. Is our treasure having everything go our way or is our treasure that everything go according to God’s mysterious design?

The Catholic response is to keep the dying person as comfortable and pain-free as possible, and to accompany them with love and compassion all the way home to God.

The truth is by our baptism, we all are called to share in the prophetic work of Christ.

Jesus' message about being great is to remain the last of all and the servant of all.

Jesus was often misunderstood in the course of his public ministry, That’s why in our time it is so important to get the right answer to Jesus’ own question: “Who do you say I am?”

Today, the Lord speaks to us the same words he once spoke to the man of multiple disabilities in the gospel: be opened!

Being a Catholic Christian is a full-time job. Pursuing holiness is a lifelong task, requiring our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength.

Today’s Scripture readings are all about choices – really big choices. Like the ancient Jews and the first Christians, we have a choice to make. The choice above all choices is always to follow Jesus Christ.

The fact is only Christ’s food will nourish us for the work of discipleship every day.

Jesus invites us to come to him regularly in prayer, wearied and burdened as we may be, and he will give us the rest we need to carry on.

God’s People grumble, and God hears these grumbles with compassion and responds to them with love.

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.