Laura Kazlas

About the Author

Hello! My name is Laura Kazlas. As a child, I was raised in an atheist family, but came to believe in God when I was 12 years old. I was baptized because of the words that I read in the bible. I later became a Catholic because of the Mass. The first time my husband brought me to Mass, I thought it was the most holy, beautiful sense of worshiping God that I had ever experienced. I still do! My husband John and I have been married for 37 years. We have a son, a daughter, and two granddaughters. We are in the process of adopting a three year old little girl. We live in Salem, Oregon in the United States. I currently serve as the program coordinator for Catholic ministry at a local maximum security men's prison. I‘m also a supervisor for Mount Angel Seminary’s field education program, in Oregon.

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For a Bishop as God’s Steward Must Be Blameless

Laura Kazlas

Saint Paul wrote in today’s first reading in his letter to Titus: “For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy and self-controlled …

Why Did Jesus Praise the Dishonest Steward?

Laura Kazlas

“The children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than the children of light.” This is the last verse in today’s reading from the gospel of Luke. How true this is for many of us.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Laura Kazlas

Saint Paul wrote in today’s first reading today that: “We who worship through the Spirit of God, who boast in Christ Jesus and do not put our confidence in flesh, although I myself have grounds for confidence even in the flesh.”