by Matt Nelson . November 12, 2019 .

by Fr. Damian Ference . October 4, 2019 .

by Dr. Tom Neal . November 19, 2018 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . August 26, 2018 .

In today’s Gospel, we see Jesus’ followers reacting to his shocking teaching about eating his flesh and drinking his blood by saying, “This is a hard saying; who can accept it?” To understand Jesus’ meaning, we must understand that he’s not using symbolic or metaphorical language. He’s speaking words of “Spirit and life” which bring into being precisely what they signal.

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . May 11, 2018 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . June 16, 2017 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . June 18, 2017 .

This Sunday the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi in Latin. This feast displays the distinctiveness of Christian religion amongst all the other religions, philosophies, and world views. No other group of people is called upon to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the person they admire. Christianity is the strangest way precisely because we are given this distinct access into the Divine Life.

by Bishop Robert Barron . April 30, 2017 .

Like the two disciples walking towards Emmaus, a symbol of worldly power and security, and away from Jerusalem, the center of sacrifice, we need to be stopped in our tracks. Christ appears to them, but they do not recognize him. They do not recognize him because they are walking the wrong way. The recognition of the pattern of Christ’s life does come until the Eucharistic act which presents the pattern of sacrificial love. Then they immediately go back to Jerusalem, the place of suffering love.

by Bishop Robert Barron . April 23, 2017 .

Jesus has come to bring us the divine life. Under his influence we become peaceful, unafraid, evangelizing, and forgiving. Through the Church, saints are made. This is because Christ is at the very center of the Church.

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . October 17, 2016 .