God is depicted as "pulling down" those in high places because of their arrogance. Why do you think abuse of power and authority is such a perennial temptation? How have you dealt with that temptation in your own life?

Some days, Jesus is my Lord. Other days, I’m the only authority to which I answer. Which day is which is probably more obvious to folks around me than it is to me. From within the borders of self-involvement, all you can see is yourself.

When Jesus arrived in the villages of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “What are people saying about who the Son of Man is?”

In the spring of 1934, Margaret Mary McNulty died at the age of 18. She had lived with kidney disease nearly her entire life. It was a condition that perhaps could have been cured in our own time, but in the 1930s there was no hope of such a miracle. Margaret Mary was the beloved second child of Bill and Molly McNulty, the child they worried about, the little girl on whom they doted.

The Lord does not forsake the work of his hands. Let us place ourselves in those hands.

It is through the liturgy, especially, that the faithful are enabled to express in their lives and manifest to others the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true church.