Advertisement The great, hidden, revealed truth we can never get to the end of, we can hold in the two words given us by Jesus, in answer to a question about how to pray: “Our Father.” The Gospel at ...

Father’s Day is this Sunday, and as we remember our own fathers, may we take time to contemplate what it means that God is our Father. Throughout both the Old and New Testaments God is referred ...

In a Sunday Angelus address he said, “God is our Father; even more God is our Mother.”Even more, God is our Mother. It was a profound, brave statement; one that did not get the attention it ...

She is a gentle mother who brings us to salvation, as St. Cyprian said: “No one can have God for his Father, who does not have the Church for his mother.” ...

Sunday, July 24, is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Genesis 18:20-32; Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8; Colossians 2:12-14; and Luke 11:1-13. In giving us the “Our Father,” in ...

One God We begin with the confession that God is One. This goes back to Deuteronomy 6:4, the famous Shema: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one." ...

Like Julian of Norwich in the 14th century said, as sure as God is our father, God is our mother. So, I mean, this is not something that's newly invented. It's part of our tradition.