Daily Reflections

Today’s liturgy speaks with one voice about forgiveness. Sirach exposes the destructive nature of resentment and calls God’s people to remember their own need for mercy. Saint Paul reminds Christians that whether alive or dead, they belong to the Lord because Christ died and rose precisely to become Lord of the living and the dead. […]

Saint Paul speaks with remarkable Eucharistic clarity: the cup and bread of blessing constitute communion with the Blood and Body of Christ, and therefore those who share the one bread become one body. This Eucharistic teaching is connected with Jesus’ warning that good trees are known by their fruit and that genuine discipleship requires hearing […]

Saint Paul presents evangelization as a sacred responsibility rather than an occasion for personal glory. He freely becomes the servant of others so that they may encounter the Gospel. He then compares Christian discipleship to disciplined athletic training. The Gospel complements this by warning against blind guides and hypocritical judgment. Before attempting to remove a […]

The liturgy today places before us one of the most demanding and beautiful teachings of Jesus: the call to love our enemies and to imitate the mercy of the heavenly Father. Saint Paul approaches the same mystery from another direction. Writing to the Corinthians about food associated with pagan sacrifice, he warns that knowledge without […]