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The Feast of St. John Lateran
Today’s readings [Celebrating Sunday’s feast today for the school children.] Have you ever heard the story of the three pigs? If you have, then you remember that one of them built his house out of straw, and the wolf was able to come along and huff and puff and blow his house down. The second…
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Thursday of the Thirty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It’s all a matter of perspective – that’s true in most things, but most especially true in our relationship with God. Today’s Gospel gives us a glimpse at that. Jesus asks, ““What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and…
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The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
Today’s readings: Isaiah 25:6-9; I Corinthians 15:51-57; John 6:37-40 This past Sunday and Monday, I took a couple of days off. I packed up early on Sunday and was out of the house by 6am, and took a 3 hour and 45 minute drive to see a friend, one of my classmates from seminary, who…
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For All the Saints (Sine Nomine)
Happy All Saints Day & All Souls Day!
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Thursday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I think today’s reading from St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is a good one for us to hear. How often are we beset by all the frustrations of the world, and all of the sadness that our own lives can sometimes bring? I’m not saying that every day is horrible, but we…
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Ss. Simon & Jude, Apostles
Today’s readings Today, we celebrate two apostles who, as often is the case, are relatively unknown except that they were followers of Jesus. Jude is called Judas in Luke and in the Acts of the Apostles. Matthew and Mark call him Thaddeus. We have in the New Testament the letter of Jude, which scholars say…
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Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” That certainly seems simple enough. But we miss the mark on it all the time, don’t we? The idea is to put God first, which of course, is the first of the ten…
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Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Have you ever seen a fig tree? I haven’t. But I can tell you I’d be pretty frustrated if I had cared for a fig tree for three years and never saw one bit of fruit. I think we could all understand the man wanting his gardener to cut the tree down and…
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Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Some people would say that Jesus was a peaceful man. Saying that is really misunderstanding Jesus and who he was. Because peace wasn’t necessarily his primary interest, at least not peace in the way that we often see it. Because sometimes I think we misread what peace is supposed to be. We might…
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