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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If We Live in the Spirit Let Us Follow The Spirit

Laura Kazlas

In yesterday’s gospel, Jesus was invited to eat dinner with the Pharisees and he ended up insulting them to their face at the dinner table, by calling them fools and telling them that they were filled with plunder and evil inside. Then, he insulted the Pharisees and the scholars of the law to their face in today’s gospel.

Be the First to Show Respect for Others

Laura Kazlas

Did you happen to notice that Jesus called the Pharisees fools in today’s gospel? Jesus was invited to dinner in someone’s home and yet he insulted them to their face, at the dinner table. (Surely that will make the pope cringe today when he reads the gospel.)

Allegories and Signs in the Scriptures

Laura Kazlas

The first reading for Mass talks about two allegories and in the gospel today, Jesus talks about a sign. In both instances, the allegories and the sign was simple on the surface, but they were much more complicated in their meaning. That sounds like modern life, doesn’t it? Nothing is ever as simple as it seems at first glance.