PRESENCE
The people of the town were insisting that Jesus stay with them. They had fallen in love with Jesus. He was not only a wonder worker, not only a healer and miracle worker; Jesus was already their friend. And when…
Father Soc
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THE LORD’S TEMPLE
All of us have seen pictures of churches in ruins, destroyed by natural calamities, but worse, by wars and other acts of aggression. We have seen how churches were destroyed during the Second World War, and more recently in the…
FRIENDS OF JESUS
Lazarus represents all of us. He was a good friend of Jesus. Didn’t it strike you that Lazarus was referred to as “the one whom Jesus loved”? Jesus says the same thing about each of us: “the one He loves.”…
SET THE FIRE
Today we honor a great saint, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (or the Jesuit congregation). Like St. Ignatius, we are called to abandon everything, to leave everything behind to follow Jesus. The name Ignatius…