17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

There was a little boy who asked his mother for a bike, a red bike, for his upcoming First Communion.

His mother, knowing that he had not been a very good boy, asked him to write a letter to Jesus about his request for a bike. So the little boy, Bobby, went up to his room, …

In the wake of the Enlightenment, certain Protestant exegetes, eager to present Christian belief as entirely consistent with the rationalism that had come to rule the day in Western Europe, attempted to “demythologize” the gospels. They feared that presenting Jesus as …

There is no free lunch. Or so we have been taught to believe in the capitalistic societies that we live in. Even if it’s someone’s else’s charity we are benefitting from, the lunch that we get free has to come from somewhere, value is not just created out of thin air – …