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Thursday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings When you stop to think about it, we are so richly blessed to have as our guide for prayer, and a prayer that we can say, the words of our Lord himself. It’s such a beautiful thing that this is usually one of the first prayers that we learn. It’s a powerful tool…
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The Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I love this image of seeds growing for a couple of reasons. First of all, it’s summer, and we are seeing things grow all around us. We hope the corn will be knee high by the Fourth of July, and that the flowers we’ve planted adorn our homes with beautiful color. Summer finds…
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Friday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary time
Today’s readings This morning we have to wrestle with the question: is there something in my life that distracts me from living my life as God intended that I need to cut out? It’s a ruthless image that we find in our Gospel reading: gouge out an eye, cut off a hand – all of…
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Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church
I’m not sure if it’s that I’m getting older or that I have too many things to keep track of, but I find myself losing things, or losing my train of thought more often than I used to. I’m often grateful to Saint Anthony on those occasions! Saint Anthony is probably one of the best-known…
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The Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Where are you? This is the question God asked Adam and Eve early on in our first reading today. And for them, the answer to the question was that they were not in an especially good place. We know the story: God had given them everything they needed to live in the Garden…
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The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Today’s readings There was a commercial many years ago that showed little vignettes of people having near miss accidents, who are saved from those accidents by other people. So a woman on the way out of a restaurant moves a coffee cup on the table of a man whose elbow might knock it over at…
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Thursday of the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Truth is quite the topic these days. Mostly because people choose to define truth in any way that suits them. Absolute truth is taken to be authoritarianism and it’s the real death of any kind of conversation that would lead to conversion. The encouragement in popular culture these days is to live “your…
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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings Today we celebrate with great joy one of the most wonderful feasts on our Church calendar, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Through this greatest of all gifts, we have been made one with our God who loves his people beyond all imagining. We experience this love in perhaps one of…
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Saint Justin, Martyr
Today’s readings The greatest men and women who have ever lived have followed the example of our Lord Jesus Christ in that they have been willing to give their lives for the truth, for what they believed in, for what is right. In our first reading, Saint Jude encourages us in the faith to follow…
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