Fr. Justus Pokrzewinski, OP

Father Justus also confronts a common attitude: that priests and sisters are called to be holy, while "ordinary Catholics" just try to live well enough to get to heaven. That's not true. There is no ordinary Catholic.

Jesus tells the parable of a man who receives a visitor at midnight with no food in the house. He knocks on the baker's door until his persistence finally wins him the bread he needs.

Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary – a feast that was originally called Our Lady of Victory.

As Jesus preaches from town to town, He doesn't travel alone. The apostles are with Him, and so are the women, "giving of their resources" to support His mission.

A Pharisee invites Jesus to dinner, and a woman known throughout the city as a sinner enters uninvited, weeping at Jesus' feet, drying them with her hair, and anointing Him with costly oil.

"Forgive your neighbor's injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven."