All things wellScott Hahn
The incident in today's Gospel is recorded only by Mark. The key line is what the crowd says at the end: "He has done all things well." In the Greek, this echoes the creation story, recalling that ...
Pure religion Scott Hahn
Today's Gospel casts Jesus in a prophetic light as one having authority to interpret God's law. Jesus' quotation from Isaiah today is ironic (see Isaiah 29:13). In observing the law, the ...
A choice to makeScott Hahn
This Sunday's Mass readings conclude a four-week meditation on the Eucharist. The Twelve Apostles in today's Gospel are asked to make a choice -- either to believe and accept the New Covenant ...
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Scott Hahn
On this feast, we praise God who has taken the sinless Virgin Mary, body and soul, into His glory. In our first reading, from Revelation, we find God's temple in heaven opened and the Ark of the ...
Take and eatScott Hahn
Sometimes we feel like Elijah in today's First Reading. We want to lie down and die, keenly aware of our failures -- that we seem to be getting no better at doing what God wants of us. We can be ...
Endurance test Scott Hahn
The journey of discipleship is a lifelong exodus from the slavery of sin and death to the holiness of truth on Mount Zion, the promised land of eternal life. The road can get rough. And when it does, ...
Bread left overScott Hahn
Today's liturgy brings together several strands of Old Testament expectation to reveal Jesus as Israel's promised Messiah and King, the Lord who comes to feed His people. Notice the parallels ...
