Jesus spoke a new teaching, and he spoke with authority.

In baptism, all of us enter into Christ’s priesthood, prophethood, and kingship. God raises prophets, and these real prophets are worth listening to.

One of my favorite teachings from the epistles is almost a throwaway line from Colossians 3:21: “Fathers, do not nag your children, lest they lose heart.” That’s the old ICEL translation from the breviary, anyway.

I was walking past a schoolyard yesterday and the kids were hanging out waiting for the bell to ring to start the school day. As kids will, some little third grader was taunting another one. She said, “Why should I listen to you? You’re just a dork.” 

in 1989, in the months leading up to the 40th anniversary of the communist regime in East Germany, a Lutheran pastor in the city of Leipzig began preaching at a peace vigil in the city’s Nicolaikirche.

One of the earliest pictures my brother took was of me back in 1955, a half century ago, dressed in my Hoppalong Cassidy outfit with hat and six shooter and holster.

We have confidence in the words of God. We listen to God’s Word, and offer our own words in prayer:

For the sake of . . . adherence to the Lord without distraction. Appearances to the contrary, Saint Paul is not arguing against marriage, which the Corinthians in their zeal may have been rejecting. In fact, he recognizes that most marry.

To believe in the relevance of God is to believe in the presence of prophets among us who show the relevance of his Word. To believe in the faithfulness of God and in his church is to believe that he will not let it fall asleep, be overwhelmed, lose its vigor and the dynamism of its hope. —Jésus-Maria Asurmendi