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How well do you treat your spouse? Do you treat them as they deserve? Do you find yourself in tit-for-tat interactions? Are many, maybe even most of your actions responses to their words and deeds? Or do you treat your spouse as God would have you treat them, regardless of whether you feel they deserve it? In this Sunday's Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples that the Son of Man will repay each according to his conduct, and that whoever loses his life for his sake will find it.

"I really respect my wife. She's one of the best people I know. I'm just no longer in love with her." Seth told Dawna. "That's why I wanted an annulment." Seth had separated from his wife, and filed for divorce, while also petitioning for an an annulment of his marriage. But the Tribunal reviewing the case said that there was “overwhelming evidence” that he had a valid marriage. He and his wife had been together for 15 years, and had two children. Now they were starting couns

In this week's Gospel, a Canaanite woman approaches Jesus, begging him to heal her demon-possessed daughter. At first he ignores her; then he makes a comment that seems to compare her to a dog. Most of us, treated this way, would either walk away wounded or fire back defensively. She does neither. Instead, she leans into his insult, saying "even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." In that moment of radical humility, without an ounce of self-abasement