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Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Second Samuel, which we have been reading in our first readings over the last couple of weeks, paints King David, the ancestor of Our Lord, as a very human, very flawed man. Last Friday, we heard of his exploits with Bathsheba, which resulted in him murdering her husband, Uriah the Hittite. Yesterday’s reading,…
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Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr
Mass for the school students at Saint John the Baptist. Lots of times when we have stories of saints who lived centuries ago, we don’t know a whole lot about them. And the stories that we get are maybe true, maybe not so much. But the stories of the saints always point to Jesus, the…
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The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s readings give us a little instruction on the virtue of humility. Humility is the virtue that reminds us that God is God and we are not. That might seem pretty obvious, but I think if we’re honest, we’d all have to admit that we have trouble with humility from time to time.…
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Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The story of David and Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite is a compelling one. It almost seems like the kind of thing you’d hear on a soap opera or some kind of crime drama. But here we have it right at the beginning of our Liturgy of the Word today. This reading is…
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Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s readings There’s a little line in the Gospel reading that could pass us right by, or at least puzzle us to the extent that we forget it and move on. But I don’t think we should. That line is: “Take care what you hear.” It closely follows Jesus’ other hearing-related line: “Everyone who has…
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Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Today, we celebrate the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the pre-eminent philosophers and theologians of our Church. At the age of five years old, Thomas was promised to the famous Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino. His parents were hoping that one day he would become the abbot of that community, which had become…
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Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops
The sign of a good leader is her or his ability to perpetuate their activity. A good corporate leader is future-minded, and lays the groundwork for his successor to carry the company forward. A good parent raises children that can be set free one day to be successful and prudent in life, extending their integrity…
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The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sunday of the Word of God
Today’s readings Many years ago now, before I went to seminary, this parish put on a production of the musical Godspell, and somehow I found myself part of the cast. If you’ve ever seen the musical, you know that it is based on the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel that we are reading during this…
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The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
Today’s readings I think we have to read and hear today’s readings very carefully. We’re still in the Christmas season – at the end of it, actually – and, more precisely, we’re at the octave day of the Epiphany of the Lord, which we celebrated last week, in which we started to see Jesus revealing…
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The Nativity of the Lord
All during Advent, we have been yearning for the light. Advent reminds us that the world can sometimes be a very dark place, that war and terrorism and crime and disease and sin and death can really give us a beating, that very often we experience life much differently than God intended us to, and…
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