LAST THINGS AND END TIMES CRYSTALIZE IN THE CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW's GOSPEL AS BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST WE REMAIN READY FOR HIS RETURN IN GLORY.................

HUMANITY's SACRED TRUTH IS EXEMPLIFIED IN EMBRACING CONTEMPARARY PROPHETIC VOICES AS WELL AS HONORING PAST PROPHETS.................

KING HEROD's MORAL COMPLEXITIES AND COMPROMISED LEADERSHIP CAUSED HIM TO BEHEAD JOHN THE BAPTIST BUT HE COULD NOT KILL HIS PROPHETIC VOICE AS FORERUNNER TO THE CHRIST.................

JESUS THE MESSIAH OF GOD's PEOPLE EXHORTS HIS DISCIPLES TO GO BEYOND THE PHARISEES LEGALISM AND LIVE FULLY THE SPIRIT OF DIVINE AND HUMAN LAWS.................

THE TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE APOSTLE PETER WAS JESUS' CHOICE TO BE THE CHURCH's PRIMATIAL LEADER FOR LEARNING TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF CHRIST.................

AVERTING BEING PHARISAICAL BY AFFIRMING OUR BELIEF IN THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

8 YEARS AGO TODAY - MY KIDNEY TRANSPLANT IN MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA.................

ST. BARTHOLOMEW AND NATHANIEL : TWO MEN - ONE APOSTLE.................

YET ANOTHER BIZAARE UNSCRIPTED OFF THE RAILS CAMPAIGN STYLE SPEECH BY PRESIDENT TRUMP IN PHOENIX ARIZONA LAST NIGHT FULL OF LIES AND DIVISIVENESS IN A WORD - UNHINGED.................

THE CHALLENGING SUMMONS OF TODAY's GOSPEL PARABLE - CONSERVING THE PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR ESPUSED IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING.................

POTUS 45's AFGHANISTAN WAR SPEECH WAS VEY SHORT ON SPECIFICS AND DETAILS HIGH ON REDIRECTED RHETORIC AND FIGHTING TO WIN A CONTINUING ENDLESS WAR.................

FOLLOWING JESUS IN FREEDOM INTO GOD's KINGDOM REQUIRES OVERCOMING THE BURDEN OF RICHES.................

THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1979.................

TODAY's GOSPEL CHALLENGE -THE RADICAL REALITY OF BEING WHOLEHEARTED FOLLOWERS OF JESUS THE CHRIST.................

THE TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JESUS AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN - REVEALS WE ARE MORE THAN INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS / ENEMIES AND OUTCASTS BORDERED IN OR OUT.................

JESUS THE CHRIST CONSIDERS CHILDREN BLESSED FOR BEING CLOSE TO GOD's KINGDOM.................

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE - THE UNBREAKABLE BOND OF A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP.................

THE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS THE CONSTANCY OF FORGIVENESS AND THE LORD's PRAYER.................

PRESIDENT TRUMP's LATEST FAILURE IN MORAL LEADERSHIP - MAKING A MORAL EQIVALENCE BETWEEN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE VA PROTESTERS WHO ARE NEO-NAZIS AND KU KLUX KLAN AND COUUNTER PROTESTERS TO THEM.................

THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY :LISTENING TO GOD;s VOICE AND OBSERVING IT RESULTS IN THE CROWN OF GLORY FOR FOR ALL BELIEVERS.................

THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE VIOLENCE AND DEATH STIRRED BY AMERICAN NATIONALISTS IN VIRGINIA USA.................

THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : SUPPLANTING OUR DOUBT AND FEAR WITH GOD's PRESENCE IN BOTH CALM AND STORM.................

IN CHRIST ITS ALL ABOUT FAITH...AS JESUS HEALED THE DEMONIZED SON OF A MAN VERY BELIEVING IN HIS LORDSHIP.................

NEITHER ACCIDENTAL OR FATALISTIC - CHRIST's CRUCIFIXION CONCRETIZES THAT CARRYING OUR CROSSES ARE THE WAY TO ATTAINING GOD's KINGDOM.................

ST. LAWRENCE DEACON AND MARTYR AND THE NECESSITY OF GRAINS OF WHEAT DYING TO BRING FORTH NEW LIFE.................

JESUS' TROUBLING YET HOPEFUL ENCOUNTER WITH THE WOMAN FROM CANAAN - HER PERSISTENCE RESULTS IN THE REALIZATION CAME FOR THE JEWS AND FOR ALL PEOPLES.................

TURNING THE TABLES ON THE PHARISEES THE CHRIST OF CREATION COMPELS THEM TO EXAMINE THEIR CONSCIENCES.................

JESUS' WALK ON WATER DENOTES HIS DIVINE COMMAND OVER THE WIND AND SEA.................

THE EIGTHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME : TODY's FEAST - THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD.................

THE MOTIVES BEHIND THE DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST WERE JEALOUSY RESENTMENT REVENGE ARROGANCE PRIDE AND SELF CENTEREDNESS.................

THE ASTONISHMENT OFFENSE AND REJECTION OF HIS HOMETOWN RESIDENTS OF JESUS' PROPHETIC VOICE WHEN HE CAME AS THE MESSIAH THEY AWAITED.................

THE PARABLE OF A BURSTING NET FULL OF FISH AND SIFTING THE RIGHTEOUS FROM THE WICKED THE OLD FROM THE NEW THE TEACHING OF MOSSES THE PROPHETS AND OF JESUS CHRIST.................

THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP IS GIVING ALL WE HAVE FOR THE MOST PRECIOUS TREASURE - GOD's KINGDOM.................

THE WHEAT AND THE WEEDS PARABLE JESUS EXPLAINS EMPHASIZES THE JUDGMENT TO HARVEST THE GOOD FROM THE WICKED IN THE HARVEST OF THE END TIMES.................