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There will come a day when people will stream to Jerusalem, not the physical city but the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church. Instruction shall go forth from this New Jerusalem, as when the Apostles began carrying the good news to Jerusalem and Judea, to Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, and as when the Church teaches authoritatively today on faith and morals.

In so many ways, King David points ahead to his most famous descendant to be authoritatively declared the King of the Jews: Jesus of Nazareth.

In these waning days of the liturgical year, as the lectionary readings have an increasingly pronounced focus on the end times, the Lord invites us once again to ponder the reality of our individual judgement at death and the final judgement at the end of time

The Prophet Ezekial saw a vision of the New Temple, and Jesus made this vision a reality.

Death is not the end; it is not a farewell. For the righteous, it is the gateway to eternal life with the Lord.

The Lord is close to the lowly. He hears their cries. He wants to answer their prayers without delay, through you and me.

Christian friends who can hold us up and remind us of the Lord’s mighty deeds in our life.

Namaan experienced physical and spiritual healing by doing the simple thing commanded of him by the Lord.

Throughout life's difficulties, the Lord is faithful, and so we must be faithful as well.

The Spirit is calling to our attention that we must not be complacent in the face of evil, of the mistreatment of our fellow man who is created in the image of God and for whom God became man and died on a cross to redeem.

External observance of religious rituals is not what the Lord is after. He wants our hearts.

"And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." John 3:14-15

the Holy Trinity wants to help us overcome the weightier aspects of bodily life, the unchecked emotions and cravings that seek to control us. These crosses that we all carry in our as-yet-not-glorified bodies can be overcome by reliance on grace and the practice of virtue.

The Lord calls us to recognize our creaturely limitations, especially the limits of what we are able to understand.

The Lord is sending us out to all the nations to bring out brothers and sisters back to him. This isn't just the calling of a few missionaries to far away lands. It's the calling of each one us based on our Baptism.

Jeremiah experienced intense persecution. Jesus also experienced intense persecution. Part of the Christian life involves being misunderstood and disliked for the sake of Jesus and the Gospel.

We ought to have a sure knowledge of the sacraments in which we put our faith so that we can experience blessings and grace in the very things that often plague modern man.