Archive | Pentecost Season

When you weep what emotion do you express? One may weep for joy at the birth of a new child or one may weep for sorrow over a disappointment. In the approach to Jerusalem Jesus wept for sorrow that the city and the souls in the Jewish nation failed to recognize the moment of their […]

Do you have a home? Do you have a car? What do you call “yours”? All that we possess can become an obstacle to the reality of who I am. The most difficult parable of our Lord Jesus is this parable of the “Unjust Steward”. This individual had the master’s trust and failed to live […]

By Their Fruit A lamb can never be a wolf for their natures are quite contrary but in the human condition a man’s interior is manifested in his external behavior and his words. We can come to know ourselves through our words, our thoughts and our acts while others can come to know us through […]

Fr. Occhio challenged our philosophy class on the question of perfect justice and can it be achieved in this world? While we exist in this sinful and fallen world there will never be any perfect justice. This fallen earth is infested with the effects of our original sin and so original justice is beyond our […]

In the course of our Lord’s public life twice He multiplied loaves and fishes to feed the multitudes. First, there was the multiplication of 5 loaves and two fish among the 5000 with clear references to the Jewish nation. Second, a multiplication of seven loaves and a few fish among the 4000 with clear references […]