The often exhausting details of living in communion as God's people.

The second of two parts on leadership and all that's implied.

The first of two parts on leadership.

Humor is a form of communication. We are challenged to hear the humorous banter between Jesus and this woman.

We get rattled. Elijah and Peter are our kinsmen in this sense that life is asking too much of us. Our God offers us the way to peace.

The mystery of the Eucharist, foreshadowed in the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, was cherished by Flannery O'Connor, who died fifty years ago today.

We consider the gift of wisdom and the modern prayer about the interplay of serenity, courage, and wisdom.

Beware misinterpreting the parable of the weeds and the wheat! If we see "good people" and "bad people," we do not allow for the fundamental experience of the Christian life: conversion.

The abundance of God's gifts assures us that we can never exhaust the gift of love.

Is life about "becoming somebody"? No; from the very beginning, we are already "somebody," because we are loved by God.