"Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?" (Hebrew...

"Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus son of Jos...

“Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! For wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, a...

"The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son." (Matthew 22: 2). Thursday of the 20th week...

"Why do you stand here idle all day?’  They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard....

"And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will rece...

"Jesus said to him [the rich man] “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to [the] poor, and you will have treasure...

"In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to death: he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in thi...

“Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19: 14). Saturday of t...

272 Faith in God the Father Almighty can be put to the test by the experience of evil and suffering. God can sometimes seem to be absent and...

"It was not your sword or your bow." (Joshua 24: 12). Friday of the 19th week in Ordinary Time. The first presidential address o...

"Almighty, ever-living God, who assumed the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of your Son, body and soul into heavenly glory, grant...

"Greater love has no one than to lay down his life for his friends, says the Lord." (Cf John 15: 13). Wednesday of the 19th week...

"It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you. So do not fear or be dismayed.” (Deut...

"As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men,  and they will kill him, and he wi...

"Stay awake and stand ready, because you do not know the hour when the Son of Man is coming." (Matthew 24: 42, 44). Sunday of t...

"Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it p...

"I remember the deeds of the Lord." (Psalm 77: 12). Friday of the 18th week in Ordinary Time is the feast of St Teresa of the  Cr...

"He [Jesus] turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human ...

"We felt like mere grasshoppers." (Numbers 13: 33). Wednesday of the 18th week in Ordinary Time. Have you ever felt like a grassh...