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Monday of the Twenty-fourth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s gospel reading gives me the opportunity to talk a bit about the new translation of the Roman Missal. As you may know, we will begin using that translation at Mass beginning on the first Sunday of Advent this year, November 27th. We have already begun using the sung parts of the Mass,…
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The Liturgy in these past summer months has been teaching us how to be disciples of Jesus. Today, the readings give us another tool for the disciple, and that tool is forgiveness. These readings come on the heels of what we heard last week, which was about the way the Christian disciple resolves…
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The Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today again, we see Saint Peter sinking into the waves after walking on the water. Just last week, Peter eloquently professed his faith. After Jesus asking who they said he was, Peter replies, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” But just a few short verses later, in today’s Gospel,…
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The Queenship of Mary
On this, the octave day of the Assumption of Mary, we celebrate another great Marian feast, that of the Queenship of Mary. Today we celebrate the fifth glorious mystery of the rosary: Mary is crowned queen of heaven and earth. The Queenship of Mary has been celebrated ever since Pope Pius XII instituted this celebration…
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Friday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings So today we have a Pharisee who is a scholar of the law engaging Jesus in conversation. I think it’s important for us to know that this scholar wasn’t really interested in Jesus’ point of view, he didn’t expect to learn anything from Jesus. Instead he was looking for Jesus to say something…
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The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today’s readings The tradition of the Assumption of Mary dates back to the very earliest days of the Church, all the way back to the days of the apostles. It was known that Mary had “fallen asleep” and that there is a “Tomb of Mary” close to Mount Zion, where the early Christian community had…
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Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Today’s readings Today’s readings are challenging ones for us. Certainly we hear a challenge to be welcoming: God’s house is a house of prayer for all peoples, Isaiah tells us. But I don’t think these readings are just a spot check of our desire to be a welcoming community. Instead, I think the readings go…
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Saint Dominic, Priest
Today’s readings On a journey through France with his bishop, St. Dominic came across the Albigensian heresy. The Albigensians believed in just two principles in life: good and evil. For them, anything material was evil, and so they denied the Incarnation and the sacraments. On the same principle they abstained from procreation and took a…
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The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Todays’ readings I think that today’s readings are readings that call us to hope. The hope that we have is the presence of our God, even when things are falling apart – even when the wind and the rain and the earthquakes and fire threaten us, God is there. I thought of that a lot…
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Friday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s readings ask us to ponder the question, “what do we have to do to remain in covenant with God?” And the question, I think, is an important one. We would want to respond to God’s gracious act of making covenant with us first. We see in today’s readings that he chose us…
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