7th Sunday Ordinary Time – C Luke’s sermon on the plain, begun last week, stretches over three Sundays in the lectionary. Today, Jesus continues teaching about the new kind of community that God’s reign is building. In the old, earthly … Read More
6th Sunday Ordinary Time – C At first glance, Luke’s Beatitudes seem to make God’s reign a zero-sum game: if you’re poor now, wait and you’ll be rich in heaven; if you’re filled now, you’ll be hungry soon enough. But … Read More
5th Sunday Ordinary Time – C To treat today’s Gospel passage as a springboard for a talk on vocations would be to miss the boat, pun intended. The call of Peter, James, and John gives us so much more to … Read More
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C Today, in part two of last week’s passage, we hear the crowd’s reactions to Jesus’s one-sentence homily on Isaiah’s proclamation: “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” The amazement of Jesus’s … Read More
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – C Over the last few years, we’ve learned much about the power of words. When spoken aloud, they can heal or destroy, calm or incite, unite or divide. We have begun to understand as … Read More
2nd Sunday Ordinary Time – C Today’s Gospel passage is the third “theophany” in the Epiphany triptych, made up of the divine manifestations to the Magi, at the Jordan, and now in Cana. One thread uniting these scenes is that … Read More
Thirty-Fourth or Last Sunday in Ordinary Time Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Solemnity – 21 November 2021 Daniel 7:13-14. Psalm 93:1, 1-2, 5. Revelation 1:5-8. John 18:33b-37. Alpha and Omega. Go look at the parish Easter Candle … Read More
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – 14 November 2021 Daniel 12:1-3. Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11. Hebrews 10:11-14, 18. Mark 13:24-32. and World Day of the Poor Is the End-Time Coming? The liturgical year of 2021 ends in 14 days. … Read More
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – 07 November 2021 1 Kings 17:10-16. Psalm 146:7, 8-9, 9-10. Hebrews 9:24-28. Mark 12:38-44. What Bothers Jesus. False piety and arrogant behavior are two things that bother Jesus in today’s gospel. He applauds, instead, … Read More
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time – 31 October 2021 Deuteronomy 6:2-6. Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51. Hebrews 7:23-28. Mark12:28b-34. What Matters the Most to God? The answer is simple: love God and love your neighbor as yourself. The practice is … Read More