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Feast of Saint Patrick
What always amazes me about our Gospel story is the response of the fishermen to our Lord’s command. I wonder if they knew him or knew of him before this incident, because it’s amazing that these exhausted fishermen, who were calling it a day, let Jesus get on board their boat, and then proceeded to…
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Monday of the First Week of Lent
Today’s readings Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy. People often balk at the mere suggestion of being called to personal holiness. Oftentimes, this is wrapped up in a misplaced and false humility, that kind of humility that says that since I’m good for nothing, there is no way I can…
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Friday after Ash Wednesday
Today’s readings A lot of people say they aren’t giving up something for Lent, they’re just going to try to do something positive. When it’s that vague, I often think that means they’re doing nothing at all for Lent, which is sad for them. But, I usually tell people it doesn’t just have to be…
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Saints Perpetua and Felicity, virgin martyrs
Today’s readings Saints Perpetua and Felicity and their companions lived in the late second and early third century, during a time of intense persecution of Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus. Perpetua was a young, beautiful, well-educated, noblewoman of Carthage and mother of an infant son. Her father was a pagan and her mother a Christian. …
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The Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Today’s readings Today’s readings get us to the heart of a very sticky matter. What is it that is most important in terms of our salvation? Is it faith in Jesus Christ? Or is it doing good works? This question has been the lightning rod of the faith for a long time now. Disagreement over…
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Monday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings There’s an old joke about a man who, while walking through the countryside one day, was distracted and fell over a cliff. On the way down, he managed – just barely – to grab on to a branch of an overhanging tree. As he hung there, he quickly realized that he couldn’t hold…
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Mass for the Election of a Bishop
Our diocese this weekend is celebrating the Mass for the Election of a Bishop, praying for the prompt appointment of our next bishop. So I did a brief homily on what a bishop is and does, followed by a talk about (sigh) money. You get just the first thing here! As you may know, our…
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Monday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings So the disciples are waiting for Jesus to come down the mountain after the Transfiguration. They have attempted to cure a man’s son from the hold of a demon, but they were apparently unable to do so. This seems to have led to an argument between them and the scribes. You can almost…
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Saints Cyril and Methodius
Today’s readings You might have been expecting to celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day today, but we don’t have Saint Valentine’s day on the calendar, unless, of course, it’s a Hallmark calendar! Instead today we have the feast of two brothers: Saints Cyril and Methodius. They lived in the ninth century in an area of Greece inhabited…
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The Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time [A]
Today’s readings I think that if you took a survey, nearly everyone would want to say that they are righteous, that is, that they do the right thing. But I also think that survey would reveal how amazingly different each person’s definition of righteousness would be. One person’s idea of righteousness might be that they…
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