Every time we read the word of God or hear it proclaimed during the Divine Liturgy or other sacraments of the Church, Jesus enters our […]

The most prominent characteristic of a prophet is to convey God’s messages. All the prophecy books in the Bible detail how God chooses and sends […]

During Great Lent, the Sunday Gospel readings present us with questionable characters—the Prodigal Son, the Unjust Steward, and the Unscrupulous Judge—instead of exemplars of perfection […]

Saint Gregory of Nyssa, in his treatise titled “About the Perfection that the Christian Should Acquire,” writes about Christ, after whom we are named, as […]

With what measure do we determine a person’s worth? Judas Iscariot, in the betrayal of his Teacher, approached the priests of the Temple, and they […]

John the Evangelist presents the teachings of Jesus through a series of dialogues. Sometimes, Jesus criticizes the faults of the Pharisees and scribes, while at […]

In our daily routines, we constantly rely on our faith in physical things. We trust that the elevator will function, that the car approaching us […]

Not everyone is blessed with a life of flawless and unwavering health, nor have we been blessed with a temperament characterized by ideal proportions. Some […]

We find the parable of the laborers in the vineyard only in the Gospel according to Matthew (20.1-15). Jesus uses this parable to describe the […]

Alessandro Dehó, an Italian hermit, was inspired by a passage in Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian. In this passage, the desert […]