The Truth Will Set You Free

John 8: 31-42 One program that is very successful in treating alcoholism is the program Alcoholics Anonymous. It is said that for a person who wants to be healed, the most basic requirement for the alcoholic is to admit that he or she needs help. No denial, no justification, no blaming. Just plain and simple,…

Holier Than Thou

Matthew 13: 24-30 How often have we heard comments such as: “Why go to Mass when the people there are no different from the people who do not go to Mass?” “Look at her she prays so fervently but look how she mistreats her household help.” “I heard that even within the different organizations and…

Apathy and Indifference

A sociologist named, Tom Corley, studied the lifestyle of the rich and the poor. His study showed a lot of differences between the two: The rich love to read, not the poor. The poor love reality TV, not the rich The poor love junk food, not the rich The rich exercise at least 4 times…

At God’s Given Time

John 8: 12-20 The first reading talks about two judges whose “suppressed their consciences” and look at the damage they have done to the life of Susana. How many of us have been victims of other people’s sin and because of this, suddenly our lives are plunged into darkness. Yet, Susana did something that we…