Blog posts from January, 2022
January 31, 2022

St. John Bosco (+1888)
2 Samuel 15:13-14, 30, 16:5-13; Mark 5:1-20
“What have you to do with me?”
It was a cry of anguish and opposition from a man possessed. ...
January 29, 2022

Saturday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
2 Samuel 12:1-7a, 10-17; Mark 4:35-41
Parables in the Bible are often rhetorical boomerangs: they tell a story, invite the ...
January 28, 2022

St. Thomas Aquinas
2 Samuel 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Mark 4:26-34
Power can be dangerous. David, whom God called a man after his own heart, had the almost absolute power of a ...
January 21, 2022

St. Agnes (+304)
1 Samuel 24:3-21; Mark 3:13-19
In her recent book, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, journalist Amanda Ripley describes a ...