Fr. Michael Denk

Well, that's life! That's it. Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth. And then we hear in the gospel, eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you die. Qoheleth in Ecclesiastes this…

Jesus gives us this wonderful prayer of the Our Father.  What I love about the Our Father is it is the one prayer that Catholics know from the time that…

Jesus tells us that the better thing is to sit at His feet. I want you to try to let go of all that dynamic just for a moment and…

When we proclaim the Gospel, right before that, we make the Sign of the Cross on our forehead, on our mouths, and our lips. Why do we do that? We’re…

As Jesus is going towards Jerusalem, he sets his face like flint. He’s determined to do the father’s will, and at this point in the gospel of Luke, there’s no…

They all ate and were satisfied. I want to talk today about what it is to be satisfied, especially when we receive the Eucharist. We live a lot of our…

For this Trinity Sunday, I would like to talk about this image of play that is used in the Book of Proverbs. I want to talk about how play is…

As we celebrate this feast of Pentecost, I want to focus on some of the natural elements in the way that the Holy Spirit works and how we can encounter…

We come towards the end of this Easter season, and we remember the Resurrection of our Lord, Jesus. Today, we also remember his Ascension, that after he had appeared in…

In the first reading, we hear about Paul and Barnabas preaching, going from city to city, and preaching.  And something very interesting is that they entered the synagogue on the…