“This Scripture promises much beyond the crisis of betwixt-and-between. It is a word for the fault lines of ethnicity, culture, and religion that we experience today.”

"In this week's reading from the Acts of the Apostles we see how the Good News has spread from its origin in Jerusalem and has now reached the coast of..."

“If our relationship to God depended on our love, it would soon come to an end. But because it is founded on God’s endless love, it can continue despite our weakness and sin.”

"God is love' (1 John 4.8): this verse must be the most quoted in the New Testament. Pope Benedict XVI took it as the theme of his first encyclical, Deus..."

"Same say that public speaking is an art of keeping a distance from one’s listeners. A good orator, like a trained fencer, is able to close the distance or widen..."

“Our actions, our choice to act in a loving way shows us and others who we are. Moreover, our loving actions are witness to our faith in the God of love.”

"Today’s Gospel presents the distinction between a generic spirituality, which emphasizes our decision for God, and authentic Christian faith, which is the recognition that God has chosen us in Christ...."

"We are often mistaken in thinking that we have to love God in order for God to love us. That’s not the case. God doesn’t need our love; his love..."

“We cannot hate those who disagree with us. We are brothers and sisters in Christ.”

“But let us remember this: though Jesus said “love one another”, it does suppose that our love for the other depend on their love for us”

"We are approaching the end of the Easter season and the great feast of Pentecost, and already the sound of the mighty wind that will descend on the apostles like..."

“It is impossible to love your neighbor without relating to, being in solidarity with, and contributing to, your neighbor’s wellbeing. Love cannot remain indifferent within an impersonal analysis.”

“We’ve got to see the human person before us – in those we work with, in those we live with in our community, and in those we live with within our homes. See the humanity within, look through the exterior, and I think that’s how we find God.”

"It is with these telling words that Pope Francis begins his Apostolic Exhortation 'The Joy of the Gospel': “Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and..."

“This is our mission. We can’t simply be loved, we have to love as well.”

"Jesus was Jewish. Peter, John, the apostles, Mary and Joseph were all Jewish. As Christians we sometimes forget this. We have just kept the feast of St.Joseph. The main emphasis..."

"Today's gospel reading is an excerpt from what St John tells us that Jesus said to his disciples just before he went out into the night to be arrested and..."

“All of us are here because of the love of God that instills in each one of us a worth and an importance. So every time that we affirm another person and lift them up by our love, we are reflecting the very love of God that called us into being.”

"Friends, with these fabulous readings for the sixth Sunday of Easter, we discover an embarrassment of riches through the exploration of God’s care and concern for us. In this sermon,..."