Have you noticed how the encounter with Bartimaeus is closely linked with the request of James and John, the sons of Zebedee.  In the Gospel it follows immediately after these

In her testimony to St. Joseph, St. Teresa of Avila tells us that she never knew a time when she had turned to St. Joseph in great need and he

At the heart of J.R.R. Tolkien’s, The Hobbit lies the journey of the title character, Bilbo Baggins, who was whisked away from his very comfortable life, by a band of

Many years ago, there was an uneducated man who traveled from town to town teaching. He had noticed for quite some time that his home country was beginning to fall

This past week, the now famous blue man from the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics did an interview in which he attempted an apology for his place in the

After feeding the five thousand, John tells us in his Gospel that Jesus withdrew because he “knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him