God treats you as sons,” the Letter to the Hebrews says: in contemporary language, “children of God.” That’s a big challenge. It doesn’t mean being small or dependent. Rather, it involves becoming like the Son of God, accepting the responsibility of enduring “your trials” as he did his.

By no means is Jesus narrowing the gene pool of the saved by his teaching. Rather he’s saying divine rescue comes more easily to the outsider (presumed damned) than to the insider (presumed saved).

A lot of you are going to assume that you’ll sit down to God’s salvation banquet just because you’ve been hanging around the neighborhood all your lives. Well, one day you’re going to be banging on the door, wanting to get in, but you’ll find the door locked.

In Northern Africa and the Middle East, tech savvy citizens took to social media as repressive governmental regimes ignored their citizen’s demands for reform and tried to cut off their communication to the outside world. 

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

We hear this week of gathering, but some will be surprised at who are admitted and who—mainly themselves—are not.

Scripture makes it clear that simply being a member of a chosen race or having rank upon rank of noble ancestors makes no impression on God. Only one thing does: goodness.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. —Mortimer J. Adler