Monthly Archives: June 2022

The young are wont to ask. What would we say in response to the question: why are unleavened bread and grapes used as matter in the Eucharistic celebration? Why is it received in the world also under bread and wine? … Continue reading →

Today’s Gospel wants to instruct us in our life; the Lord Jesus advises: “Take heed and do not do your good works before men so that they may admire you…” (Mt 6:1). The Gospel addresses that those who are trugenuinelynt … Continue reading →

In the church, we regularly talk about love. Right at the beginning, we hear: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And who … Continue reading →

In the Holy Gospel, we read that the Heavenly Father makes his sun rise on the good and the bad, sending his rain on the just and the unjust. And not only that. The Lord Jesus desires the same loving … Continue reading →

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It is a great encouragement for a priest introducing children into the spiritual life to hear a remark from the lips of children: I have heard this before. My mother, father, brother or sister read it to me… Parents who … Continue reading →

To pluck out the eye, to cut off the hand. Is Jesus serious? Anyone who honestly questions his conscience would have to cut off or pluck something! Jesus is certainly not concerned about literally mutilating my body. He wants to … Continue reading →

Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again. Then Yahweh’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones and the dust, … Continue reading →

Indeed, none of us likes pretense. And he who has a straight backbone hates it. And rightly so. If we think this way, we take to heart the words of the Lord Jesus, “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the … Continue reading →