“The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them”…

Jesus calls an unlikely character, a tax collector, to be his friend and goes on to share a meal with…

The heroic demand made of Abraham echoes in the opening line, “Take your son, Isaac, your only one, the one you love”…

We must be grateful to Thomas for arguing as he did…

If yesterday all seemed well, but today we are in crisis, this gospel has a vital message for us…

We need to trust the Lord in dark times as well as in sunshine and light…

As we associate St Peter with inspirational leadership, Paul’s preaching spread the faith among the pagans…

This feast invites us to be glad, to have full confidence in God’s constant love for us as a shepherd cares for the sheep of his flock. …

After years of childless marriage, Sarah turned in desperation to the local custom of getting a surrogate to bear her a child…

The long testing of Abram’s confidence in the Lord was getting the better of him. Why keep on hoping against hope?…

People often seem to flourish better while working hard on a meaningful project, than with having too much leisure ….

John forms a kind of boundary between the two Testaments, Old and New. The Lord himself says, The Law and the prophets were until John…

What was this intriguing “thorn.” Was it an ugly appearance, a recurrent sickness, failing eyesight, a tendency to intemperately blunt speech?…

We need to see Paul’s boasting in context. He was trying to answer wounding criticisms made about him in Corinth…

Paul’s words had a sobering effect on his readers and brought at least some of them back to their first loyalty…

Ideally, we should practice generosity because it’s right, rather than merely in order to be loved or praised, or remembered by posterity….