To begin our reflection today, it’s important once more to go back to the beginning of this series of teachings that Jesus is giving us that make up the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus had told his ...

224 pages, bibliographical references. Order here. With the discovery of many new source documents in the Sinai Desert and near the Dead Sea, and with the advent of modern methods of textual analysis ...

Let’s distinguish wisdom from knowledge in general. It is more than just practical information about how the world is, how to maintain things like our health or our prosperity. Wisdom refers to the ...

The first gift of the Holy Spirit, the pearl of great price, is wisdom. Wisdom appeals, as the Catechism says, to both the heart and the mind. But our sinful nature often refuses it. We all know ...

As Christians, we say we want to love God, and we want to love people. We want to serve the world. This idea comes from the core of Jesus’ teachings and is rooted in the Old Testament. I want to look ...

he has lavished her upon his friends. Today’s readings offer a selection from the Book of Sirach, part of the “wisdom literature” tradition, though not included in the Hebrew Bible nor the Bibles used ...