In going to Tyre and Sidon Jesus had traveled to the edges of the territory to get away for a while from the conflicts his ministry was causing.

A lot of people are not going to approve of your homily this week. Just know this ahead of time and brace yourself. Matthew is not interested in making you popular in the pulpit apart from a few nice Christmas stories anyway.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is often mothers in need who are driven to be inventive for the sake of their children.

My father told me the story about his being an immigrant teenager desperately looking for work on the East Coast with his two brothers.

We pray for the God's mercy for our sins.

That is our vocation: to convert . . . the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.