Forgiveness and the Problem of Evil

The Sacred Liturgy sets before us a difficult theme today: the accomplishment of God’s will in the face of suffering and adversity. It is a particular feature of the ancient Roman liturgy that all of the texts of the Mass are chosen for each other and fit together. The entrance antiphon, or introit, which has […]

Humbly Welcoming God’s Word

Most of us have probably had the experience of dealing with someone who is annoyingly nitpicky, who insists on fussing over unimportant details to the degree that it’s impossible to get anything done. Maybe it’s the person who insists on correcting every little detail while you’re speaking so that it’s impossible to have a conversation. […]

Father Gregerson on the Radio

I will be on Redeemer Radio tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 26th at 7:30 a.m. You can listen at 106.3 FM in Fort Wayne and the surrounding area, or online at http://www.redeemerradio.com.

Following Jesus by Receiving Him in Holy Communion

We have been reading at Sunday Mass for the past five weeks from the sixth chapter of St. John’s Gospel, our Lord’s famed Bread of Life discourse. It is perhaps the most important chapter in St. John’s account of our Lord’s public ministry, because in it He lays the groundwork for the Church’s faith in […]

Going Without Meals: The necessity of frequent communion

Probably none of us here know what it is like to feel starvation, to have gone days without food and to feel the life going out of us. It is likely, though, that each of us have had some taste of this at times in our lives by experiencing severe hunger because of an illness, […]

Marriage and the Celibate State

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 […]

God Always Forgives

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 […]

How to 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 […]

Fulfilling Our State in Life

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 […]

Childlike Humility

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 […]