Scripture Reflections for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

"What does it mean to be a human being? What are we, really? The answer our children are taught in school is that we are just animals, the result of..."

"In today’s first reading, we see God giving the Israelites mysterious bread on their way to the land of liberation. We need this same food ourselves, to sustain us for..."

"It’s strange what leaps out at us at times when we read passages of the scriptures which are very familiar to us. With this Sunday’s Gospel, familiarity draws us so..."

"It’s 2018 – and we are starving to death. Look around, you know it to be true. In a society where there is such a surplus of wealth, those words..."

"The great French thinker, Blaise Pascal, famously wrote that all humanity’s miseries stem from our inability to remain quietly in our rooms. According to Pascal, our restlessness gets us into..."

"St Thomas Aquinas says in a neat way that there are three things necessary for our salvation: to know what to believe, to know what to desire and to know..."

"“You can know a thing to death, and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be..."

"Friends, the ensemble of this world that God has made is good, and we’re meant to enjoy it; however, we hunger for something that transcends this world. Christ is the..."

"Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries."

"God satisfies the hunger of his people. The readings today challenge us to rely on God as the only source of our survival for He does not only satisfy our..."

"The current recession is making many people forego things that they cannot at the moment afford. But one thing we cannot do without is food and drink. We can reduce..."

"People can sometimes seem very ungrateful. I remember that once when I was studying at our priory in Oxford, a couple came to the door and asked for a sandwich...."