When I was a child in the 1950’s, we wanted to convert the world. Kids would say “I want to go to China” or “I want to go to the Middle East.” That missionary fervor is gone now. With these words, an old priest I knew...

At the start of His public ministry, Jesus attended a wedding in Cana.  Why was this the perfect setting for Him to work His first miraculous sign? Gospel (Read Jn 2:1-11) St. John tells us that after Jesus called and...

St. Anthony the Abbot was born in 251 in Upper Egypt to a prosperous Christian family. At around the age of twenty, he heard the Gospel passage “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor…”...