We need to listen deeply to Jesus' promise that when things seem to be falling apart and the very forces of nature seem to wreak death, God is near, the reign of God is truly among us.

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud ...

This is the great sin of the servant who stores his coin in the handkerchief: Paralysis. Struck with the King’s gifts and the ...

All of this is teaching us that the world as we know it is passing away. Only the Lord and his word to us remain forever.