The Gospel of the woman taken in adultery, following the Gospel of the Prodigal Son, is a very suitable one for the Year of Mercy. Like the parable of the Prodigal Son, this episode seems to capture, with wonderful simplicity, the essence of Jesus’ message and mission...

Today we begin our orderly reading, on Sundays in Ordinary Time, through the Gospel of St. Luke. We omit for now the infancy narrative found in Luke’s first two Chapters. We heard it all very recently...

Eight days after the birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph took him to be circumcised. So we hear the brief Gospel account of that read on the Octave Day of Christmas. But today the Church invites us to look beyond...

The life of Jesus with our Blessed Lady and St. Joseph at Nazareth is a mystery the Church wants us to ponder, enter into, learn from, wonder at. St. Luke draws a veil of silence over almost all the details of this life, but he and the other Evangelists actually tell us all we need to know about it. Once established...