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Ash Wednesday II
Today’s readings [Prayer Service] A couple of years ago when I was in seminary, I was a fire chaplain for one of the local fire departments. On Wednesdays, we only had one class, and since it was Ash Wednesday and our teacher was a pastor of a parish, he was obviously busy, so we had…
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Ash Wednesday I
Today’s readings [Mass for the School Children] What are you going to do for Lent this year? Are you going to give something up? Are you going to pray more? Are you going to do something nice for someone or do something for the poor and needy? Those are the three ways that we observe…
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Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Listen to this from the first reading again: Study the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed? Has anyone persevered in his commandments and been forsaken? has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed? Compassionate and merciful is the LORD; he forgives sins, he saves in…
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Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time: Icons of God’s Mercy
Today’s readings The hard part about reading from our Lectionary is that, while it is very good, sometimes the little bits we get of the story aren’t really enough for us to understand, or at least to fully appreciate, what is going on. That’s the case, I think, with today’s first reading. So I could…
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Friday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings [Mass for the school children] A long, long time ago when God had finished creating the heavens, the earth, and everything in them, including men and women, God looked at it and saw how very good it all was. God especially loved the people he created because those people were images of himself.…
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Thursday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings In the aftermath of the great flood, what’s left is what God wants us to know is important: life. Life is the way we participate in the essence of our Creator God. And that life is so important that absolutely nothing could completely blot it out – not even the waters of the…
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Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings First, I would like to say that, given today’s Scripture readings, I am very glad it’s not raining right now… What strikes me about these readings is that they speak of the fact that we, with our limited human minds and imaginations, often don’t get God. Even those of us who are people…
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Blessed are they who hope in the Lord
Today’s readings When I was growing up, I always liked the “Peanuts” comic strip. Some of the best were the ones that started with “Happiness is…” So they would show pictures of Peppermint Patty hugging Snoopy with the caption “Happiness is a warm puppy” while another said, “Happiness is a good friend.” I think those…
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St. Scholastica, Virgin
Today’s readings: Songs 8:6-7, Psalm 148, Luke 10:38-42 Today’s Saint (more) We are told in the Gospel today that “Mary has taken the better part and it will not be taken from her.” Much the same could be said about St. Scholastica, whose memorial we celebrate today. St. Scholastica is known as the sister of…
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Scriptures speak of the dignity and importance of women in the life of the world and of the Church. The first reading, of course, speaks of the creation of the first woman. She is not named, but is referred to as “woman” because “out of “her man’ this one has been taken.”…
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