It’s dangerous to live in the realm and limitations of the single word, of ideas, of images, of what "has" to be and is not, of what "should" have been and was not, of the things that we were told to do and didn’t, of what I want to do and never do. Sometimes we can find that we’re living in the world of thwarted intentions that we long to put into practice, but we don’t. And so what is the reality of our life? My life is what I am, what we are with our virtues and with our sins. The reality is that my family is what I have—the one that God gave me, which is my husband or the wife that I cho

Commentary on St. Luke 13: 10 – 17 "With all your heart, with all your soul and with all your spirit ..." God asks us to love him with everything, not with parts, not with something, not with crumbs, not with what is left over, but with everything. As we sometimes say, let's put everything we have into this new week, with all of our goodwill, strength, courage, and all the love that we can. We can love more and better; we can love Jesus much better and more than we do. We can give more and better love to our neighbor and to the people who cross our paths. You can love your husband or wife m

Monday October 26th 2026 - XXX Monday in Ordinary Time + Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 13: 10 – 17 Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, "Woman, you are set free of your infirmity." He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, "There are six days when work s