The First Sunday of Advent
Today’s readings Happy New Year! Today is, as you probably know, the new year of the Church, that new year we always begin on the First Sunday of Advent. As we light the advent candles, we imbue the year ahead … Continued
The Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings “Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.” I always like to joke that that’s how I ended up being the … Continued
The Thirty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The readings in these last days of the church year can be confusing, and sometimes even scary. But they have an important job to do in terms of our spiritual lives. They very often challenge our notions of … Continued
The Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Mike was one of my favorite people in the world. He owned the service station where my family had, and still has, our cars repaired and maintained ever since we first moved out to the suburbs, almost forty … Continued
Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 1; has always been one of my very favorite psalms. One interpretation of this Psalm is to look at it as a blueprint for blessedness. In Biblical terms, of course, blessedness equals happiness. So the person … Continued
The Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings When a couple comes to me for marriage, one of the things I have them do is to write me letters, individually, asking to be married. I ask them to reflect on their relationship and to say something … Continued
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 … Continued
The Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings I love it when the Gospel has a curious story in it because it’s fun then to peel back the layers of the story, kind of like an onion, and get at what’s inside. Today’s Gospel story is … Continued
Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings The Divine Liturgist today is inviting us to find our hope in God, and inviting us to turn over our lives to God in hopeful anticipation that God will answer our needs. Sometimes I wonder how willing we … Continued
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Try as we might for perfection in our journey of faith, we stumble and fall sometimes. That’s just the way it is in this fallen world. But that being the case, we have in our Liturgy of the … Continued
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