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Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. Today, Jesus is still at the home of the Pharisee where he went to have dinner, as we heard in yesterday’s Gospel. One of the people at table says to him, “Blessed is the one…
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Monday of the Thirty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “In you, O Lord, I have found my peace.” I believe that one of the goals of all our lives is to find true peace. And unfortunately, we spend time looking for that peace in too many of the wrong places. We might think we can find peace in wealth, or status, or…
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The Thirty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time: All Souls Remembrance Mass
Today’s readings This morning’s Gospel reading presents us with perhaps thefoundational principal of living the Christian life: love of God and love of neighbor. We love God with great fervor because he loved us into existence. And God teaches us how to love: to love him and to love others; in fact we manifest our…
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The Thirty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The very most important piece of the Gospel today comes right at the end, when Jesus says to the scribe: “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” That’s actually a pretty remarkable thing for him to say, because he was always berating the scribes and Pharisees for not getting it, for…
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The Solemnity of All Saints
Today’s readings Today, the Church militant – which is all of us – rejoice with the Church triumphant – which is all the Saints in heaven – because of the great glory of God. This glory they can already see; we hope to see it one day. And we will see it if, please God,…
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Monday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Loose lips sink ships.” That’s a saying that I learned somewhere in my early elementary school life. I don’t think I fully understood what it meant at the time – all I appreciated was that it told me to keep my mouth shut. But as I’ve lived and matured, I know very well…
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The Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings At the heart of today’s Gospel reading is the question of whether or not we as disciples of Jesus are willing to go where he’s leading us. Much could be said about the posturing of James and John to get the good seats in the kingdom. But their ambition is not the point here. The…
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Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time: Make a Difference Day
Today’s Readings Anything worthwhile costs us something, most especially our faith. If we are serious about it, if we love God and want to be caught up in his life, we’re going to have to pay for it in some way. Jesus speaks to that in today’s Gospel. One of the biggest costs to us,…
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St. Isaac Jogues, St. John de Brébeuf & Companions, Martyrs
St. Isaac and St. John were among eight missionaries who worked among the Huron and Iroquois Indians in the New World in the seventeenth century. They were devoted to their work and were accomplishing many conversions. The conversions, though, were not welcomed by the tribes, and eventually St. Isaac was captured and imprisoned by the…
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