Today’s Gospel passage is a very important one for our day and age, in which our Lord defends and reinstates in the original order of creation in which the marriage bond is indissoluble. These words of our Lord, “from the beginning it was not so,” inspired the teaching of St. John Paul II on marriage […]

Today’s Gospel passage speaks of the importance of forgiveness. When Peter suggests that we should forgive our brother seven times, he is suggesting that we should forgive many times. However, our Lord has even bigger plans. When He says that we should forgive seventy times seven times, the meaning is that we should always forgive […]

When someone does something that offends you, how do you react? Do you give in to gossiping and complaining about that person, or do you go directly to him and try to work through the problem. In today’s Gospel, our Lord tells us that if someone sins against us we should give to him and […]

In the first reading today, St. Paul talks about the importance of fulfilling our state in life. He writes, “Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” This term, “state in life,” refers first to our vocations as married, single, or religious and then also to the […]

What does it mean to become childlike? Traditionally, we have juxtaposed the virtue of being childlike with the vice of childishness. Childishness is when we give a greater priority to what is less important, when we stubbornly insist on having our own way, and when we refuse to put others’ good before our own. This […]