The gospel today Jesus talks about the best insurance policy ever: the Bread of Life. Then as now, many find Jesus’ claims and promises ridiculous and abandon Him. Jesus makes the absurd claims that His body is real food, and His blood real drink.

We are taken aback for a moment until we realize that indeed our hunger for consolation is fed by careful words and silent presences that speak to the desolation in our soul. Our hunger for understanding is fed by the acceptance we receive in fellowship and community.

We cannot be indifferent to the pain and suffering of our least brothers and sisters. In that same spirit of the Good Samaritan who asked the innkeeper to take care of the victim

Every single day of our lives he performs miracles, both great and small. Too often his miracles are far too subtle for us to notice. Sometimes we do take notice–a fervent prayer finally granted, a healing from pain, a dramatic rescue from a crisis, or an unexpectedly happy turn of…

We know that the very end is not death. We used to think it was so and we can choose to believe it will always be so. But because Christ is risen, we shall choose life. We shall entrust our lives to God and pattern our lives after him who…

Are you ready to die for your faith and what you believe in? When someone insults or hurl unjust accusations against God and his representatives do you just keep quiet? Do you support people who show nothing but contempt and disdain for the Church where you belong?

In such moments of communion, Christ sees us, sees beneath the surface of us, and patiently draws love from the depth of us. In these moments of Eucharistic conversion, not only bread and wine are changed to his body and blood.

Three persons in one God who continues to abide in us until Christ can gather all in all through the sanctifying work of his Spirit onto the final days when Christ will restore us all back to the Father's loving embrace.

God’s love elevates. If we find it tough or confusing, we are allowed to take deep breaths and recover by choosing to be elevated in God’s love. It is allowing God to take “a long and loving look” at us, and in doing so, moving us to take a long…

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Where there is charity and love, there is God. We can search the universe or the internet all night long, but only love can answer the where-ness of us and the where-ness of God.