Msgr. Joseph Prior unpacks the classic story of the Good Samaritan that Jesus tells in this Sunday’s Gospel. We hear the Lord speaking to our hearts and inviting us to open our minds to our neighbors, ...

Parable of the Good Samaritan In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus uses the example of the Jew and the Samaritan, who would not ordinarily have been friendly towards each other.

“People do not put new wine into old wineskins,” he says. “Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ...

The results? The initial finding was that only 40 percent of the students who had just prepared a talk based on the parable of the Good Samaritan stopped to see if the person needed help.

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

Locals voted for the best wineries in CT, and we’ve got notes on where to find the perfect blend of sips, tours, pours, and views.

Using Jesus’ parable of the rich fool as a mirror, I hold up their actions against eternal truth, not to condemn, but to awaken them to the futility of hoarding wealth in “bigger barns” while the ...

This biblical narrative, no doubt, eerily mirrors the mindset of Nigerian politicians today, a ruling class obsessed with storing wealth in “bigger barns” while the country around them decays. The ...

June 30, 2025 Listen The Tenants and the Vineyard, Part 2 Today we conclude our series on the parables called, Listen. What we’ve learned in this series is that Jesus spoke in parables so that those ...

I have always loved how Jesus explained his own role through parables regarding sheep and the shepherd. John 10:7-9 says this: “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate ...

Jesus made the hero of the story, the one who showed true greatness, the outsider. For many of us it would be like telling the parable of the Good conservative Christian, or the Good Muslim, in ...