Here on the 2nd Sunday of Lent we always focus on the Transfiguration, which is a story that we talk about quite a bit, we are quite familiar with it. Again, much like last week, I wonder what is it that I can say that I haven’t already said about the Transfiguration and will be helpful?

Here on the 1st Sunday in Lent we always hear about the Temptation of Jesus in the desert for 40 days. Mark’s Gospel is the shortest of the four, he gets right to the point, very succinctly, but maybe too succinctly, he doesn’t describe the Temptations at all, he just mentions that Jesus was “tempted by Satan” and moves right into His public ministry.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! That's probably not what you were expecting me to say, it's kind of a weird combination of Holidays, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day, somewhat in conflict even.

Another week, another healing story from Mark. But before we get into that, the “Catholic Charities Annual Appeal” kicks off this weekend, and Archbishop Zinkula has asked us to read a message at all the Masses, so here is his message:

You might be tempted to think I picked these readings out specifically for our parish Healing Mission, but no, you can see they are in the Missal, so this is just what the Church gave us for this particular weekend. Or you might think that I picked this particular weekend for our Mission because of these readings, but no, I picked this weekend because there were no NFL football games this weekend! The free weekend between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, no excuses that way…