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The generosity of widows November 10, 2024 Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kgs 17:10-16; Ps 146; Heb 9:24-28; Mk 12:38-44 or 12:41-44 In spite of his biblical importance, we […]

A living, loving incarnation of Christ November 3, 2024 Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Deut 6:2-6; Ps 18; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28b-34 Today is the feast day of San Martin […]

November 24, 2024 Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Dn 7:13-14; Ps 93; Rv 1:5-8; Jn 18:33b-37 Don't you love the pictures we're getting from the […]

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER November 17, 2024 Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Dn 12:1-3; Ps 16; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32 When I was about 3 or 4 years old, there […]

October 27, 2024 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 What would it be like to be blind from birth? Sight offers one way [...]

October 20, 2024 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 53:10-11; Ps 33; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45 or 10:42-45 Last week we observed the wealthy man who couldn't let himself be [...]

October 6, 2024 Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Gen 2:18-24; Ps 128; Heb 2:9-11; Mark 10:2-16 or 10:2-12 Do you remember Rene Descartes? ("I think, therefore I am.") Well, one […]

Seeing without distortion September 15, 2024 Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 50:5-9a; Ps 116; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35 When was the last time you looked at yourself in a […]

Our world is in desperate need of listeners September 8, 2024 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 35:4-7a; Ps 146; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 One of my dear friends was […]

September 1, 2024 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Dt: 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Acartoon I saw recently depicted a woman saying, "My […]

August 25, 2024 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ps 34; Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32; Jn 6:60-69 Back in the late 1970s, Bob Dylan wrote the […]

August 11, 2024 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34; Eph 4:30-5:2; Jn 6:41-51 "Where did that come from?" "Who does she think she is?" We make [...]

August 18, 2024 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Prv 9:1-6; Ps 34; Eph 5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58 In our history, we Christians have missed the mark on carrying out much (most?) [...]

August 4, 2024 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ex 16:2-4, 12-15; Ps 78; Eph 4:17, 20-24; Jn 6:24-35 The fox said to the Little Prince, "It is only with one's [...]

July 28, 2024 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 When I lived in rural Peru, I often had the privilege of being [...]

July 14, 2024 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Am 7:12-15; Ps 85; Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10; Mk 6:7-13 'Jesus sent them out two by two and gave them authority over [...]

July 7, 2024 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ez 2:2-5; Ps 123; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 How would you have felt in Ezekiel's sandals? First, God sent him a [...]

How storms can deepen our faith June 23, 2024 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jb 38:1, 8-11; Ps 107; 2 Cor 5:14-17; Mk 4:35-41 Poor Job! Miserable as he was, [...]

Here, there, everywhere and in the future June 16, 2024 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Ez 17:22-24; Ps 92; 2 Cor 5:6-10; Mk 4:26-34 When I was about 4 years [...]

June 9, 2024 Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gn 3:9-15; Ps 130; 2 Cor 4:13-5:1; Mk 3:20-35 Eve and Adam. Are any mythical characters better known than they? For eons, [...]

May 26, 2024 Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Dt 4:32-34, 39-40; Ps 33; Rom 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20 From where do we draw our images of God? Did you actually [...]

May 19, 2024 Pentecost Sunday at the Vigil Mass Gen 11:1-9; Ps 104; Rom 8:22-27; Jo 7:37-39 Our Liturgy of the Word for the Vigil of Pentecost begins by restating [...]

May 5, 2024 Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Ps 98; 1 Jn 4:7-10; Jn 15:9-17 'God shows no partiality.' Really? Not even between people who cheat immigrant [...]

May 12, 2024 Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23; Mk 16:15-20 Many New Testament stories appear to be variations of one another with [...]

April 28, 2024 Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 9:26-31; Ps 22; 1 Jn 3:18-24; Jn 15:1-8 Our Easter readings continually draw attention to our union with the Risen Christ and [...]

April 21, 2024 Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118; 1 Jn 3:1-2; Jn 10:11-18 They say that no good deed goes unpunished. Today's reading from Acts depicts the [...]

April 7, 2024 Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118; 1 Jn 5:1-6; Jn 20:19-31 Seeing is believing. Is that today's theme? Perhaps. Folks hear today's Gospel and think [...]

March 24, 2024 Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion Mk 11:1-10; Is 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1-15:47 Liturgy is drama, and Holy Week invites us not just to [...]

When I was 4, I told my mother that I was running away and would never come back. She replied that any child of hers who ran away and never [...]

Why does God let it happen? We might be talking about the death of a child, an unjust war, the loss of young people to gang life, or even a [...]

February 4, 2024 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jb 7:14, 6-7; Ps 147; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23; Mk 1:29-39 Lots of people complain--and figure they've got good reason to do [...]

January 28, 2024 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 One of the more delightful cartoons I've seen lately shows a puzzled man [...]

In the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a unique video went viral. A Ukrainian woman confronted some Russian soldiers, called them invaders and fascists (among other things), and [...]

In The Diary of Jesus Christ, a book as profound as it is delightful, Fr. Bill Cain has Jesus admit that he sent the disciples out on mission because he [...]

How to approach the unapproachable? How to imagine the unimaginable? The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity raises questions like these. The Scriptures offer tremendous help in our search to [...]

'Cet ready for a trip!' That could well be our call to worship as we begin the celebration of this 'Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.' We start [...]

May 28, 2023 Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1 -11; Ps 104; 1 Cor 12:3b-7,12-13; Jn 20:19-23 'How manifold are your works, O Lord! The earth is full of your creatures!' This [...]

May 21, 2023 The Ascension of the Lord Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 In the opening lines of the Acts of the Apostles, the second volume of [...]

May 14, 2023, Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 8:5-8,14-17; Ps 66; 1 Pt 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 In today's selection from Acts, we meet Philip the Evangelist. He was one of [...]

May 7, 2023 Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33; 1 Pt 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 Some say that if you gather four women in the kitchen, you will hear [...]

How many times have you told a family story only to have a sibling say, 'I don't remember it that way at all!' (That is actually a very nice rendition [...]

The spring season refreshes, revives and reinvigorates the natural world. Remnants of winter snows melt away, streams swell with runoff, days become longer as nights grow shorter, flowers blossom and [...]

April 16, 2023 Sunday of Divine Mercy Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118; 1 Pt 1:3-9; Jn 20:19-31 Mercy. What are we asking for when we ask for God's mercy? Because we [...]

April 2, 2023, Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion Mt 21:1-11; Is 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14-27:66 Palm Sunday is not a liturgy for the faint-hearted. We start [...]

March 26, 2023 Fifth Sunday of Lent Ez 37:12-14; Ps 130; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 As John the Evangelist shows us how he understood Jesus, we run into some disconcerting [...]

March 12, 2023 Third Sunday of Lent Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 Today's Liturgy of the Word starts us out with the Israelites and Moses in [...]

March 19, 2023, Fourth Sunday of Lent 1 Sm 16:1 b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:141 On the Fourth Sunday of Lent parishes preparing people for baptism [...]

Mimic holiness FEBRUARY 19.2023, SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Lv 19:1-2,17-18; Ps 103; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48 Have you noticed how, after years of being together, some married couples [...]

Freedom to live in love FEBRUARY 12, 2023, SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sir 15:15-20; Ps 119; 1 Cor 2:6-10; Mt 5:17-37 'It's up to you.' When you hear that, [...]

JANUARY 29, 2023, FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Zep 2:3, 3:12-13; Ps 146; 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1 -12a This fifth Sunday in January marks the last days of the [...]