thinking-out-loud

Jesus addresses this Word, in the first place, to those Jews who believed in Him. They had that much right, superficially at least, though t...

Two things are true for each of you, and for everyone on earth, for everyone of every nation, tribe, tongue, and people: You are a sinner, c...

You’re fascinated by St. John the Baptist.  No surprise — he is a fascinating man.  But at the same time, you’re also scared to death of him...

Mary Magdalene is a woman who fears the Lord, and He has risen up to praise her in the gates.  Her children also rise up to bless her, and h...

The Wise Man has built His House upon the Rock. The almighty and eternal Son of the living God has come down from heaven, and He has taken f...

As we heard from the Evangelist St. John yesterday, from the closing chapters of his Holy Gospel, “These things have been written that you m...

Blessed are those who read and those who hear the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as recorded by His bond-servant St. John, t...

Do not suppose that death has got the upper hand, nor that death will have the last word.  For out of Egypt God has called His Son — the sam...

This Word of our Lord confirms what His servant St. Luke has demonstrated from the beginning of the Holy Gospel — that the Virgin St. Mary i...

Wherever the Lord Jesus Himself would go, He sends pastors in His Name, in whom His grace and glory are manifested through the ministry of t...

There are basically two kinds of King. There are those who provide daily bread for their people; who give life and protect it; who use the...