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Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Liturgy of the Word speaks to us about being ready. And now’s as good a time for that as any, especially since we are getting so close to the end of the liturgical year. The liturgical year ends on the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King of the Universe, which…
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The Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Stewardship Sunday
Today’s readings This is indeed our home. It can be easy to come to think of this place as a school, or an auditorium, or even as a worship space and fills a function and other than that, doesn’t mean anything different. But as I said in the video this is our home: this is…
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Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time: Make a Difference Day
Today’s readings Our Gospel today warns us of coming persecutions. At some point, we will all be dragged before synagogues and rulers and authorities of some sort, and we will have to give an account of what we believe. Now for us, it’s not going to be so literal, obviously. But we may have to…
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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin
“I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of Jesus.” St. Margaret Mary spoke these as her dying words, while being anointed at the age of 43. Margaret was a simple woman and a Visitation nun. She worked as an assistant in the convent infirmary, but God had other plans for…
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Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Listen to the voices of hope in today’s Liturgy: “But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.” “For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” “Blessed are they who…
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Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Have you ever been sure of the Lord’s call in your life and it just terrified you? I have. And for those of us who have been in this position, we can perhaps understand Jonah’s reaction in today’s first reading. He had been called by the Lord to preach to the people in…
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Our Lady of the Rosary
Today’s readings The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on this date in 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, of which the Venetian Empire and the Spanish Empire were the main powers, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras, where…
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Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Pride and presumption are insidious sins. They make any kind of grace impossible, for they even deny that grace is needed or wanted. If we have no need of a Savior, then no relationship with God is even possible. And not having a relationship with God is something we call “hell.” So the…
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The Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Sometimes it’s hard to accept that something is in our best interest when we first hear of it. I can remember often growing up not wanting to do something like go on a retreat or join the youth group, but my parents giving me that gentle nudge to do it anyway. And then…
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Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels
Today’s readings This is the beginning of a rather angelic few days for us Catholics. Today we celebrate the feast of the archangels, and on Monday we will have the joy of honoring our guardian angels. We celebrate the way the angels protect and guide us and keep us on the path to Christ. Many…
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