Whatever else we may be thinking about in these last days of Lent, the readings for this fifth Sunday make it clear: Something’s coming. You can’t help but feel that the winds are shifting. The reading from Jeremiah promises, “The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with…

We’ve all been there. At the end of a long day, the phone rings, there’s a knock on the door, the boss stops by your desk, or an email arrives. “Can you help me with something?” “Someone has called in sick.” “We need to get this out tonight.” And there goes the rest of your…

The Sunday Gospel 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16 Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29 Rom 16:25-27 Lk 1:26-38 Do you hear it? If there is one message the world needs right now, in a moment of high anxiety and seemingly unending wars, you can find it buried deep in this beautiful Gospel for the 4th…