Mark Whittall

“Come unto me all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”   It’s a beautiful promise, a wonderful...

Have you ever noticed how so many medical associations around the world, organizations like the World Health Organization and the...

When I was growing up, back in my school days, there wasn’t a lot of emphasis on memory work. I know that in generations that preceded...

Shared meals are important. We all need to eat, we all eat to live. So when we eat together, it is often a celebration. Meals create a...

I don’t think any of us want to be invisible. No, we long to be seen. To be noticed, to be known for who we are.   I don’t think any of...

“I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already ablaze!   When I first read this gospel earlier in the week, I...

“I’m going fishing.”   What do you do when you’re at a crossroads?  When you need to think?  When you’re feeling a bit lost, or a little...

“Are you out of your freakin’ minds?”   Now that’s a better translation of what the men said to the women on that first Easter morning. ...

This world can be an awful place. A place of pain and suffering. A place of injustice and oppression. A place where human beings...

There are two ways to live:  God’s way and the other way.  Which one are you going to choose?   That’s the essence of our readings...

The temple in Jerusalem was a busy place.  Thousands of people from all over would gather there, bustling in and out, bringing or buying...

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the...

Did you do the math? Six stone jars, twenty or thirty gallons each. That’s over a thousand bottles of wine! And in little Cana of...