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Labor Day: Doing what we were created for
Today’s readings: Genesis 1:26 – 2:3, Psalm 128, Matthew 6:31-34 I want you to know some of the evils of seminary. On Labor Day of every year I was in seminary, we were at school. Last year, we even had classes on Labor Day. The Academic Dean obviously didn’t let today’s Scripture readings permeate into…
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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: You are what You Eat.
Today’s readings “You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard that as an injunction to eat healthier and take care of ourselves. And we would be well advised to do such a thing. I know I for one should have thought about that before I ate that pizza the other day. But I thought about…
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Friday of the 21st Week of Ordinary Time
Today's readings Today, again, we continue our look at what the Christian disciple looks like. Today's readings give us two more good descriptions. In the first reading, the Christian disciple is foolish! Or, at least, the disciple is foolish in the eyes of the world. St. Paul tells us in great detail that the wisdom…
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Thursday of the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Yesterday, I told you about how one of my seminary professors used to tell us that the “Christian disciple looks like something.” In the first reading yesterday, we found that the Christian disciple is not disorderly and lazy, but works tenaciously. In the Gospel, that disciple was described as authentic and righteous as…
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Wednesday of the 21st Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s readings talk all about authenticity. As one of my professors used to say, “discipleship looks like something.” People ought to be able to look at the Christian person and know that they are in the presence of a Christian person. In today’s first reading, Paul points out that, as an apostle, he…
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The 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Decide Today whom You will Serve
Today’s readings Canon law requires a retreat before a man is ordained as a deacon or a priest, so about this time last year, I made my diaconate retreat up at Bellarmine Retreat House in Barrington. It was one of the most important retreats I have ever made, with the possible exception of the retreat…
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Saturday of the 20th Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today, Jesus has yet another altercation with the Scribes and Pharisees, groups of religious Jews who were very scrupulous in their study and observance of the Torah, or Law. They went to great lengths to be sure that they, and others, did not break any of the 613 laws given in the Torah.…
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St. Bartholomew, Apostle
Today's readings | St. Bartholomew Will the real St. Bartholomew please stand up? Bartholomew is one of the saints that we know almost nothing about. He is mentioned in the lists of the apostles, but nowhere else in Scripture. So, as is true of many of the saints, what we know about him belongs mostly…
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The Queenship of Mary
The Queenship of Mary On this, the octave day of the Assumption of Mary, we celebrate another great Marian feast, that of the Queenship of Mary. The Queenship of Mary has been celebrated ever since Pope Pius XII instituted this celebration in 1954. But the feast itself is rooted in Sacred Scripture. In the Old…
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20th Sunday of Ordinary Time: The Rich Table of the Lord
Today's readings For my flesh is true food,and my blood is true drink.Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my bloodremains in me and I in him. Today we continue the preaching of John's "Bread of Life Discourse" and it may seem like we are beating home a point you already know. Perhaps by now you're…
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