Hope on the Mountain of the TransfigurationEvery year on the Second Sunday of Lent, the Church proclaims the Gospel of the Transfiguration (cf. Gospel of Matthew 17:1–9). Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, and there He is transfigured before them. His face shines like the sun, and His clothes become dazzling…

True Life Comes from God’s WordAs Jesus begins His journey into the desert, He faces the temptations that echo our own daily struggles. When the tempter says, “Turn these stones into bread,” Jesus answers with the profound truth of Matthew 4:4: “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from…

Affair of the HeartJesus tells us in the Gospel this week that He has come not to abolish but to “fulfill” the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets.His Gospel reveals the deeper meaning and purpose of the Ten Commandments and the moral Law of the Old Testament. But His Gospel also transcends…

Light Breaking ForthJesus came among us as light to scatter the darkness of a fallen world. As His disciples, we too are called to be “the light of the world”, He tells us in the Gospel this Sunday (see John 1:4–4, 9; 8:12; 9:5).All three images that Jesus uses to describe the Church are associated…