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The Birth of St. John the Baptist
Today's readings [display_podcast] “What, then. will this child be?” That question from today’s Gospel is certainly key for the celebration of the birth of St. John the Baptist, but definitely also appropriate for all of us too. At the birth of John the Baptist, the Incarnation was starting to get noticeable. God’s plan had already…
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Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] On March 4th, in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the thirty-second President of the United States, for the first of four terms. As he began his presidency, the country was in economic crisis, mired as it was in the depression. There were all kinds of concerns in the country at…
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Friday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] I have to admit I was totally at a loss with the first reading. It's hard to read the names, let alone get the meaning. I think it can be done, but I opted out because I was moved by the Gospel. And that's totally okay! “Where your treasure is, there your…
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Thursday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] Sadly, the prayer that our Lord gave us to avoid multiplying words and babbling like the pagans can so much become for us an occasion to do that very thing. We can rattle off the Lord’s Prayer so quickly and second-naturedly that we totally miss what we’re saying and miss the real…
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Monday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] We have been reading the last several days from the very challenging portion of Matthew’s Gospel in which we hear Jesus use the formula: “You have heard it said … but I say to you…” Basically, in all of these instructions, Jesus is taking the old Jewish law and cranking it up…
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Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] I don’t know about you, but I think that lots of us when we were growing up, learned that we had to win or earn the Lord’s kindness. If we wanted God to love us, then we had to behave in the right ways and follow all the rules. And some of…
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St. Anthony of Padua
Today's readings | Today's saint [display_podcast] You know, it’s a bit of a happy coincidence that we have today’s first reading on this feast of St. Anthony of Padua. St. Anthony, of course, is best known for his intercession on behalf of all of us who are forgetful and lose track of things from time…
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Thursday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] Sometimes the Gospel just makes good common sense. Today, the Gospel expands on the Golden Rule, something we should all have learned when we were very little. As my grandmother used to say, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. But actually what Jesus is telling us today…
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Tuesday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings [display_podcast] The Lord takes care of those who are on fire for love of him, he takes care of those who season their lives and the lives of others with the gifts God has given them. Today, in a very familiar way, we are being called to be salt and light. Salt is…
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"Cherish God’s vocation in you. Let it be constant, efficacious, and loving." —Mary Ward
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