Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B

My second-grade teacher, the long-suffering Sr. Edna Marie, said something in religion class which went off in my brain like a bomb: “When you follow Jesus, you discover that the more you give away, the more you have left over.”

Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B

At the time today’s first reading from the Book of Leviticus was written, people were ignorant about the cause and cure of leprosy, but they did know one thing and that was the devastating impact the disease had on the society of the Jewish people.

Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B

It’s an extraordinary teacher who can hold his or her students spellbound. Yet that is what Mark, in today’s Gospel, tells us that Jesus did as he began to teach in the synagogue this certain day.