November 27, 2022 Today we celebrate the beginning of a New Church year with the First Sunday of Advent. Happy New Church Year! Whereas this past year the Gospels were predominantly from St. Luke (Yay!), this Church year we read predominantly from St. Matthew’s Gospel. Whereas Luke is the great...
November 20, 2022 Today we celebrate the Final Sunday in Ordinary Time; The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. We come to another Church Year of celebrating the Incarnation, the Passion and Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus, the promised gift of the Holy Spirit at...
November 13, 2022 Today we celebrate the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. This is the next to the last Sunday of the Church year. Next weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Once again this Sunday’s reading speak of the ‘end times.’ The...
November 6, 2022 Today we celebrate the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. As we enter November, we begin to come to the end of another Church Year. There are jus two more Sundays in Ordinary Time culminating with the Solemnity of Christ the King on the weekend before Thanksgiving. You...
October 8, 2022 Today we celebrate the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. In both the first reading from the 2nd Book of Kings and today’s Gospel, we have stories of leprosy for sure, but looking deeper into the stories we see an important act that we sometimes forget; the importance...
October 2, 2022 Today we celebrate the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Faith, trust, obligation, and vision seem to be the themes running through all our readings this weekend. In the time of the Prophet Habakuk things looked pretty bleak. Today’s reading is a lament for what the people are...
Today we celebrate the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Today’s first reading from the Book of the Prophet Amos begins with the image of the complacent, lying on beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches. (Kind of sounds like pastors on Sunday afternoon after Masses.) He goes on to...
September 18, 2022 Today we celebrate the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. As we hear the readings for this weekend they challenge us to honesty and compassion for those less fortunate. In our fist reading, he prophet Amos speaks of those who trample upon the poor and needy, who cheat...
September 11, 2022 Today we celebrate the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time. This weekend’s Scriptures reveal to us a God who, despite our erring ways, loves us nonetheless. In today’s first reading from Exodus, we hear a conversation between Moses and God on Mount Horeb. It’s an interesting dialogue. As...
September 4, 2022 Today we celebrate the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Once again Jesus teaches us about discipleship and its cost. We can’t skirt the issue. Jesus is clear, “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” Then Jesus uses logic to...
