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The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The hard part about reading from our Lectionary is that, while it is very good, sometimes the little bits we get of the story aren’t really enough for us to understand, or at least to fully appreciate, what is going on. That’s the case, I think, with today’s first reading. So bear with…
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Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In today’s first reading, the people decide that they want to be able to get to heaven, so they decide to build a great big tower, I guess so they could go up the stairs in the tower and get to heaven. But see, that’s not how heaven works. We can’t get there…
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Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In the aftermath of the great flood, what’s left is what God wants us to know is important: life. Life is the way we participate in the essence of our Creator God. And that life is so important that absolutely nothing could completely blot it out – not even the waters of the…
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Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings What strikes me about these readings is that they speak of the fact that we, with our limited human minds and imaginations, often don’t get God. Even those of us who are people of strong faith often miss what God is trying to do in us and among us. Which puts us in…
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Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings How willing are we to wait on the Lord to give us what we need? I think that’s the pivotal question that we have in today’s Liturgy of the Word. In the case of Adam and Eve, that willingness was short-circuited by the cunning temptation of the serpent. We heard about that yesterday…
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Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop
Today we have the memorial of two brothers: Saints Cyril and Methodius. They lived in the ninth century in an area of Greece inhabited by many Slavs, and eventually they became missionaries to the Slavic people. Cyril was known as Constantine until he became a monk very late in life. Cyril and his followers invented…
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Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Blessed are those who fear the Lord,” the Psalmist tells us today. And today as our example of those who fear the Lord, we have two women. And we begin with the creation of the first woman. God has created all the creatures of the earth: land, water and air, yet none of…
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The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” A command to do something, and a promise – that is what happens in this early interaction Simon Peter has with Jesus. And it had to be exasperating for Simon, because, as he says, they’ve been hard at it all night…
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Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In our Gospel reading today, Jesus offers the Apostles an opportunity. They had been so busy, they had no opportunity to eat, let alone rest. They had just come from the mission he sent them out on back in Thursday’s Gospel reading. So he invites them on retreat: “Come away by yourselves to…
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Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In our Gospel today, we hear about the end of Saint John the Baptist’s life. Herod’s wife, Herodias, held a grudge against John because he opposed their marriage. So she schemed to end his life, as if snuffing out the messenger could ever possibly snuff out the Truth. Saint John the Baptist was…
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