Category Archives: Nezaradené

Peter Claver — Jesuit, missionary, and the man who signed his own name as a slave. His story is one of the most striking in the early modern church. ### Who he was **Peter Claver, SJ** — in Catalan Pere … Continue reading →

Let us notice what our Lord reproaches all those who consider themselves His faithful friends: “Your love is like a morning cloud and like the dew that passes away early” (Hos 6:4). This verse could also be paraphrased like this: … Continue reading →

  Dear brothers and sisters, we celebrate the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The birth of the Mother of God, the birth of the Mother of Jesus Christ, the birth also of our spiritual Mother, the … Continue reading →

Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator and Christian theologian and philosopher of the sixth century, said: “Love itself is a higher law.” When the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees place the letter of the law above … Continue reading →

Introduction Conflict is not an interruption of Christian community; it is the context in which Christian love is proven. Matthew 18:15–20 gives us one of Jesus’ most practical and challenging teachings about life together. It is not merely a protocol … Continue reading →

On September 5, 1997, the world watched a tiny Albanian nun buried with honors usually reserved for presidents and kings. She was 4 foot 11 inches tall, weighed almost nothing, had no property, no organization in the worldly sense — … Continue reading →

Why don’t your disciples fast? Text: Luke 5:33-39 And now the religious people come with what sounds like a pious question, but is really an accusation: “Why don’t your disciples fast?” In first-century Judaism, fasting was serious. The Pharisees fasted … Continue reading →

Sermon on Religious Vocations “The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.” (Mt 9:37) Dear brothers and sisters, Jesus once looked at the crowds who came to Him and saw something deeper than simply a large number of people. … Continue reading →

  In the time of Jesus’ life, a Roman centurion had a magnificent synagogue built in Capernaum. Its white marble blocks were one and a half meters thick. It was the same centurion whose gravely ill servant Jesus healed from … Continue reading →

  We have a number of such ideals—what a man, a woman, a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, a priest, and so on should be like. Such ideals are often presented to us, or we present them to … Continue reading →