Pope Leo XIV will canonise Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in Rome. While the ceremony is in Italy, the celebration – and the lessons – reach right into Australian Catholic schools....
Jesus continued, “When you’re invited to dinner, go and sit at the last place. Then when the host comes he may well say, ‘Friend, come up to the front’. That will give the dinner guests something to talk about! What I’m saying is, if you...
Jesus said, “A lot of you are going to assume that you sit down to God’s salvation banquet just because you’ve been hanging around the neighbourhood all your lives. Well, one day you’re going to be banging on the door, wanting to get in, but...
Jesus said, “I’ve come to start a fire on earth – how I wish it were blazing right now! I’ve come to change everything, turn everything right-side up – how I long for it to be finished! Do you think I came to smooth things...
Speaking to the people, Jesus went on, “Take care! Protect yourselves against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot.”...
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”...
Jesus said, “What do you think? Which of these three became a neighbour to the man attacked by robbers?” “The one who treated him kindly,” the religion scholar responded. Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”...
Jesus continued, “When you enter a town and are not received, go out into the street and say, ‘The only thing we got from you is the dirt on our feet, and we’re giving it back’. Did you have any idea that God’s kingdom was...
Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread and fish to the disciples to hand out to the crowd. After the people had all eaten their fill, twelve baskets of leftovers were...
Jesus continued, “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is.”...