Father Diaz's Weekly Blog

Our Gospel today begins with some challenging words, “to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.” There’s…

The powerless widow doesn’t have a chance against this powerful  judge. Likewise, in our First Reading, the inadequacy of Moses:…

Luke 17:11 says that Jesus “traveled through Samaria and Galilee.” Jesus grew up in Nazareth, which was around Galilee, his…

Hebrews 11:1 calls faith “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen.” Faith does involves trust, as…

We heard today from Luke 16:21, which says “Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.” Admittedly, the grammatical…

In the course of this week’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus tells us in no uncertain terms the demands and the…

Christ in Our Neighborhood             The feast of Corpus Christi, the Body of the Lord, brings with it one of…

Jn 16:12-15 The ancient Church famously told a story about Saint Augustine, that he was once walking along the seashore…

            At long last, our Easter celebration comes to a triumphant close this weekend with this solemnity of Pentecost, making…

            We see often enough in great adventure films the moment when after the journey has come to an end,…

It is deeply fitting that after Divine Mercy Sunday, we should come to this weekend’s Gospel. Last week, we saw…

The spirit of death has weighed upon us heavily for a long time now. I don’t mean only the past…