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When Jesus begins his ministry in Galilee, he immediately calls others to walk with him, join his work, and live his message. “Come, follow me,” Jesus says to Peter, Andrew, James, and John when he sees them working on their fishing nets along the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus invites these four to […]

by Joan Mitchell, CSJ MICHAEL DALY feels his heart pulled toward service. He discerned how to live out that call during his college years at the University of Notre Dame. He knows how his desire for service began—with his parents. Michael’s dad is an orthopedic surgeon and his mom a registered nurse. When they decided

“All are alive to God,” Jesus says in the final words of Sunday’s gospel. Jesus is arguing a hot topic of his time—resurrection of the dead. He argues that when God speaks to Moses from the burning bush, a story from the book of Exodus, God says, “I am the God of your ancestors, Abraham,

To believe can mean both to trust and to test. The word in Latin for I believe is credo, which combines two root words—cor (heart) and do (give). In its first meaning to believe is to give my heart, to trust. In saying, “I believe,” Christians express their trust in God as the ultimate source

Jesus ben Sirach tells us he wrote the wise instructions in the book that bears his name “as they gushed forth from my heart’s understanding” (50.27). He lived in Jerusalem and wrote around 180 B.C. In Sirach 35, this wise teacher insists there is more to true worship than making offerings. “One who returns a

Most Christians see the Pharisee in the Sunday’s gospel as a stock hypocrite. Amy Jill Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar, sees both the Pharisee and the publican as extreme figures. In her book Short Stories by Jesus, she explores parables like Sunday’s gospel, looking for how the parable might have prodded and provoked original

by Joan Mitchell, CSJ Deserve is a loaded word. Marketers know its power. They propose to send us on a dream vacation or sell us a shiny, safer car. Who doesn’t need to relax and be safe? Deserve is a word familiar to teachers. Students argue they deserve a better grade because they worked long

To read the New Testament is to read stories about people of faith praying and struggling together about important and sometimes divisive questions. In the first two sentences in Sunday’s gospel Jesus speaks with urgency first about fire, then about baptism. He wishes the fire he brings to earth were already kindled and his own

The written gospels grew up around the passion story as the core of the traditions. Why did the passion story take fixed form first? Why was it the first part of the story of Jesus’ life to be retold and written down in such detail? The first preachers had to respond to the questions that

Catholic Relief Service works around the global on behalf of the Catholics in the United States. The websites provides a story of hope for each week of Lent CRSricebowl.org. Take part in Operation Rice Bowl in your parish. Lent calls us to spring growth. The cross suggests Lenten practices. Choose one action a day and