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The Law will sound good as long as you can keep it. Yet the moment you break God’s Commandments, the Law will leave you hanging, doomed. Jesus, however, was nailed to the tree to hang on the Law for you. By this, you are saved.  By this, also, comes great joy! For Jesus has sorted salvation out for you. Therefore, you no longer need to be like the Pharisees and try to figure out which commandment is more important than the others. No longer must you try to figure out how much

Pride is always looking closely to measure itself against all others. That’s what the Pharisees did at this meal; they watched Jesus...

This marvelous Gospel is a microcosm—a small picture—of the entire counsel of God: it shows His heart, it shows the whole purpose for...

Jesus trusted His Father in—and for—all things. Beloved, He bids you to do the same, for God Himself, in the Person of His Son, calls you...

Matthew admits that he was nothing more than a dishonest, sinful man. What’s interesting, however, is that St. Luke, in his gospel...

Oftentimes, this parable is handled in such a way that it becomes nothing more than a moral object lesson. Yet even when that happens,...

Jesus looked up to heaven, and sighed.  It’s a rather remarkable, though subtle, piece of the Gospel the Evangelist gives us here: that,...

What if, in a way, the Pharisee’s prayer is a prayer of thanks from someone attempting to set a good example of what it means to follow...

Consider the witness of Bartholomew. After that first confession, his life of discipleship carried him far. Tradition tells us that he...

The sad reality is that neither you nor I, however much we may claim otherwise, are as faithful, dedicated, and desiring as we ought to...