Sunday, Oct. 29, is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40. There was an expression common among the ...

You wouldn’t! There is a huge piece missing there, and it is the part where you don’t just love God but you know that God loves you. In fact, I would say that you cannot really love God until ...

The Holy Spirit lives in us, enabling us to love as God loves. In Romans 5:5 we read, “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.” We now can love because God’s ...

Why does God love you? The answer isn’t because of who we are and what we’ve done for him. In fact, God loves us despite who we are and what we’ve done. God doesn’t love you because you ...

Our love affair with Torah is perhaps the closest ... we saw ourselves as the people that God loves. Now, all too many of us define ourselves as the people that the world hates.” ...

The Gospel parable of the "wasteful sower" who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path “is an image of the way ...

Even if we are sinners, he draws near to help us. The Lord loves us as we are. This is God’s crazy love.” The Catholic Church teaches that members of the LGBTQ community should be treated with ...