In the Gospel reading for the Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, from Luke 14:1, 7-14, Jesus speaks two parables. The first deals with honor, embarrassment, humility and exaltation. In the NRSV, ...

Today we consider the second part of Jesus second instruction about prayer in Luke 18. The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector reminds us that God hears the prayers of some surprising ...

David Brooks reflects on the parable of the Prodigal Son. You know it, right? Jesus told it to illustrate what the Kingdom of Heaven is like, and tells the story about a young man who asks his father ...

Sunday, Oct. 23, is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18; Psalm 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14. There’s an old saying that goes, “Faults ...

Emotionally, we can feel like we are in a competition and we’re losing, or we may fear failure. We may also convince ourselves that to retreat from the fray is a form of Godly modesty. Jesus’ Parable ...

Yes, humility is pleasing to God. It certainly is not a weakness. I consider Christ Jesus as the best person who ever walked the earth. And, he was humble. Jesus was so important to the lives of his ...

Editor's note: Bishop Thomas Gumbleton gave this homily Sept. 1. As I mentioned to you at the beginning of introducing the Scriptures, Jesus has been teaching us over the last 10 or 12 Sundays various ...

To get the point of this powerful and perplexing, but also, if read aright, humorous parable, you have to remember that dining protocol in the ancient world for the upper strata of society was a ...

Obviously, in our lessons today -- God’s Word that we are listening to carefully -- we are being instructed about humility. This is a virtue that I think many of us have some trouble with -- even ...