Why does God seem to make things so much harder than they need to be?  Do you ever wonder that?  That’s not meant to sound disrespectful or irreverent.  It’s a curiosity that pops up from…

Rarely does the first reading, let alone the first words of the first reading kind of stop me in my tracks as today’s did.  The prophet Jeremiah begins with the word  “WOE” - (which, in…