The "poor in spirit," to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount, are the humble people who live with an awareness of ...

The Sermon on the Mount, the setting for the Beatitudes in today’s gospel, was said by St Augustine (354-430) to be the charter of the Christian life. St ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 1, 2026.

Today’s Gospel is about the Beatitudes, one of the most profound teachings by our Lord Jesus Christ as a means of having a closer relationship with our Divine Creator. The Beatitudes also has another ...

Blessed are the rich, the powerful, the important! For the world will dance to their tune. Blessed are the strong, the aggressive, the ruthless! For their enemies will fear them. Blessed are the ...

Our Sunday gospel today is about our Lord Jesus Christ who ministered to the Great Multitude and gave them something more spiritually meaningful than the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses. The ...

One man’s mountain is another man’s plain. In Luke (6:12-17, which precedes today’s Gospel) Jesus goes up a mountain to spend a night in prayer. The next morning he picks his Twelve Apostles. Then, ...

Cambridge, MA. It is the start of the new semester at Harvard, and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy — even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60+ inches of snow ...