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St. John Vianney
Today’s readings St. John Vianney’s seminary education got off to a rather rocky start. In fact, his poor previous education nearly kept him out of the seminary. Then he had trouble understanding lectures in Latin. He was only able to overcome this with some private tutoring and amazing dedication to his calling to become a…
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Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Gospel reading is one of my favorites. Truthfully, though, it always makes me a little uncomfortable. Which is what it’s supposed to do. This Gospel wants us to get out of the boat, too. We can tend to give Saint Peter a lot of grief over this incident. If he was able…
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Monday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Give them some food yourselves,” Jesus says to the disciples. Yes, it would be easier to send the people away so they can fend for themselves. But that’s not how God wants to feed them, and Jesus won’t hear of it. “Give them some food yourselves.” All they have are five loaves and…
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The Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Recently in the news, there have been a few stories of people who have hoarded possessions so much as to put them in danger. In the most recent story, a woman in the Chicago area had passed away, and rescuers needed to cut a hole in her roof in order to remove her…
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Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings This morning, the prophet Jeremiah is urgently reminding the people Israel – and us too! – that every good thing we have, every blessing we receive, all of it comes from the Lord God Almighty. Israel was trying to find blessing in the strange gods of the peoples around them, the baals. But…
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Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary
Today’s readings: Sirach 44:1, 44:10-15, Psalm 132:11-18, Matthew 13:16-17 “Now I will praise those godly men and women, our ancestors, each in their own time.” We don’t know much, well anything really, about Joachim and Anne. Even in the Gospels where the ancestry of Jesus is traced, nothing is really said about Mary’s family, so we don’t…
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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings During this summer chunk of the Church’s Ordinary Time, we have the beautiful opportunity to reflect on our discipleship. We are all called to discipleship, that is, to follow the Lord, in whatever way God has chosen for us. And so, during these summer months, we hear of beautiful aspects of that discipleship,…
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Friday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings This morning’s Gospel passage is the explanation of the parable of the seed and the sower, which we heard on Wednesday morning. What we quickly find out is that the parable is all about us. Clearly the ideal is the good soil which produces much fruit, and just as clearly, we don’t want…
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Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The job of a prophet is not an easy one. And we should all know, because we are all in some ways the prophetic seeds the Lord is sowing in the world. We might fall on good soil, or amongst rocks or thorns, but wherever we are, we are expected to bear fruit. …
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Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The prophet Micah, in our first reading, proclaims the whole reason for our being here this morning. What is incredible about our God is his limitless compassion, his relentless pursuit of a people who often spurn him, his steadfast faithfulness and consistent, unconditional, unending, unmerited love for all of us. He actually delights,…
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