+ “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside… (Luke 8:5) Who went out? He Who is always ever sowing. The Son of God never ceases to sow in our souls. Not only by His teaching, but by all...
+ Do you see how the Lord, pitying the widow [of Naim] mourning her son, did not just use consoling words to her but helped her through His actions? As far as we are able, we too should do the same, and not be sympathetic to those who...
+ Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw (Matt. 12:22). When Jesus left the synagogue…then the whole world was offered to Him in one man. He was a...
+ “Lord,” Peter answered, “we have fished all night and have caught nothing.” Perhaps if St. Peter had caught some little fish, Jesus would not have performed the miracle, but he had nothing, so Jesus soon filled his net in such a way as almost to break it. This is...
+ “Whenever you come to God in prayer, He stands listening. Even if it is lunchtime, even if dinnertime, even if the worst of times, even if in the marketplace, even if on a journey, even if at work, even if inside the courtroom before a judge, and...
+ And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with...
+ But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Gal. 6:14). Truly this symbol [of the Cross] is thought despicable, but it is so in the...
+ Blessed Feast of the Cross Our Lord has lifted up for us His hands on the Cross, and stretched out were His hands for us. And why were His hands stretched out on the Cross? So that our hands might be stretched out to do good works...
+ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. (James 1:23-24) Do not let your hands...
+ Blessed Feast of the Martyrs & St. Verena! “The earth has been filled with the blood of martyrs as with seeds, and from that seed have sprung the crops of the church. They asserted Christ’s cause more effectively when dead than when they were alive. They assert...
