Over the past two weeks, we’ve been on a journey with Jesus where He has encouraged us to help make our faith on fire. Two weeks ago, we were reminded how the Lord lights the fire of faith in our hearts – not a faith that is meant to be safe or tame, but a…
If we think back to the readings from last week, you might remember that Jesus told us how He had come to set the earth on fire. But it’s not just any fire, it’s a fire that purifies, a fire that divides, a fire that changes us. But once that fire is burning within our…
As we celebrate the Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary today, Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics around the world to make this a Day of Prayer and Fasting for peace in the world, especially for peace in Ukraine and the Holy Land. With trust in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin…
When Jesus says in today’s Gospel, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!”, He is not talking about a cozy campfire on a cool night. He’s talking about a blaze that changes everything it touches. It’s a fire so powerful that it purifies, refines, and…
If you want to know where you’re headed, look at where your Mother has gone. Mary is the first fully redeemed human being to share in the fullness of the glory of her Son’s Resurrection. As a matter of our faith, we believe that her body didn’t see corruption. And that’s because her life was…
We tend to put things off when we think there’s still time. For many of us, our human nature is to procrastinate. In the simple things, and in the not-so-simple things. Those more challenging things we put off? We delay apologies, delay forgiveness, delay the changes we know we need to make. Why? Because we…
We spend a lot of time thinking about our retirement. And rightly so. Most of us are told from a young age to start planning early, to be smart with our finances, to invest, to save, and to build a future that’s secure and stable. We work with financial advisors, open up retirement accounts, look…
Sometimes, prayer can be a real struggle and I think we believe that the greatest obstacle to prayer is that we’re too busy or distracted. But the more we go deeper into reflection, we start to realize that the real obstacle might just be rooted in a misunderstanding of who God is. Too often, we…
Every time we hear this story of Martha and Mary, I always find myself thinking that Martha really gets a bad rap here. Let’s look at what’s happening: she’s the one running around, making sure the house is clean, the food is ready, the table is set just right – and all of that is…
I think it’s safe to say that most of us know this Parable of the Good Samaritan pretty well and can probably recount the story by heart. It’s so familiar to us that the temptation is that we either skirt over it or we view it through just one lens, that being a moral tale…
Fr. Tom Pringle 