Though he had been set aside since infancy for a special purpose, the Moses we meet in the reading from Exodus today seemed a little lost. He was a fugitive and a “resident alien” in a foreign land and needed a job.

We call the great story of faith “salvation history,” but to hear some people tell it, it’s more like damnation history. Blame those convinced that moral depravity is at the soul of every son of Adam and daughter of Eve since Genesis chapter three.

THE GOSPEL parable emphasizes the urgency of giving attention to discipleship. Sister Monica Heeran of the Sisters of St. Joseph Peace has followed that path for most of her life.

As we begin the remembrance of our Lord’s Passion, we call to mind the failures and sins from which he saves us.

"I AM sent me to you.” An apparently not-quite-ready-for-prime-time Moses was wondering if the whole thing about leading the Israelites to salvation was going to work.

Our prayers for them are like . . . well, fertilizer. A season of prayer would do them—and us—a world of good.

Jesus . . . was making his way to the heights of the Cross, to the moment of self-giving love. The ultimate goal of his pilgrimage was the heights of God himself; to those heights he wanted to lift every human being. —Pope Benedict XVI, Palm Sunday homily