Father Jeremy Miller: If someone hurts you, you go to that person and that person alone, Jesus says, and in a spirit of love, in which you want the best for them, you offer correction.

Monsignor Michael Billian: Today’s Gospel reminds us that the life of a Christian is not an easy one. It’s a life of sacrifice, a life of renouncing one’s self. It is a life of the cross. And sometimes, that’s a tough, uphill and even painful path to walk.

Father Jeremy Miller: The key to a sense of perspective in life, to making sense of all of the variety that goes on in our life, is the key of faith. It unlocks all sorts of potentials and possibilities for us that would not be there otherwise.

Monsignor Michael Billian: The Bible makes it very clear and so does Jesus that we are called to justice and not fairness.

Father Jeremy Miller: Today’s feast is a wonderful example of the dignity of the body. This feast is also an opportunity to reflect on the great gift of our bodies, which the Lord wishes to redeem in this life and more completely in the life to come.

Father Jeremy Miller: Faith is a kind of evidence. It’s different than physical evidence. It’s a relational evidence in which we believe the one who asks us to believe in them because they have a track record of making themselves believable.

Monsignor Michael Billian: There is something about the clarity of studying the big picture in order to understand what happens in the small things of life.

Father Jeremy Miller: Prayer is meant to change our heart. Prayer is not meant to change God’s mind. God already knows what you need.

Monsignor Michael Billian: It’s God’s job to do the judging. Let him do his work while we do our best to till the gardens of our lives and care for them.

Father Jeremy Miller: The challenge of Jesus today is to diagnose ourselves and to say, “Where do I need to work on my own heart so that when God plants a seed, it flourishes?”