A Christian is called by Christ to aspire for excellence and the correct term to explain excellence as a disciple of Christ is maturity. At the heart of Christian maturity lies the fundamental question: What must be done or manifested in our lives to show that our person, our faith and our virtues are deeply…

For ages, men and women have been seeking direction on what to do and how to do it, seeking advice from oracles and fortune-tellers, visionaries and seers, reading palms and looking for any sort of way to glimpse into the future. Today’s readings for the sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time give us the answers to…

Today’s three readings of the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C from Isaiah 6.1-8, 1 Cor. 15.1-11 and Luke 5.1-11 invite us to drop below the surface and to live with more depth, consciousness and meaning. Jesus’ invitation to “Put out into the deep and let down … nets for a catch” is an…