The Second Sunday of Advent
Today’s readings When I was little, time seemed to go by so slowly. But all of that has changed as I have gotten older. This year, particularly, seems like a blur. This is the sense that we get in today’s … 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
Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Pride and presumption are insidious sins. They make any kind of grace impossible, for they even deny that grace is needed or wanted. If we have no need of a Savior, then no relationship with God is even … Continued
Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord
Today’s readings Palm Sunday is a Liturgy that can be a little puzzling. We start out on a seemingly triumphant note. Jesus enters Jerusalem, the Holy City, and the center of the Jewish religion; the city he has been journeying … Continued
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Today’s readings The waters that flowed from the temple in the first reading are the same waters that were stirred up in the pool at Bethesda, and those are the same waters that if you’re real quiet, you can hear … Continued
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent
Today’s readings Many people who have been away from the Sacrament of Penance for a long time have said that they were afraid to come back to the Church because they felt like their sins defined them. That they walked … Continued
Ash Wednesday
In a sense, you know, we’re doing this wrong. We just heard Jesus give very explicit directions to his disciples that they were not to make a big deal about their fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. They were to go to their rooms, … Continued
The Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time (Cycle A)
Today’s readings I saw a picture on Facebook the other day that a brother priest posted. It was of Francis Cardinal George, of blessed memory, and it was of one of his quotes: “Yes, all are welcome in the Church, … Continued
The Second Sunday of Advent
Today’s readings Have you ever had the feeling hat things were just not right? I don’t mean not right like you got the wrong order at Portillo’s, or your postal delivery person gave you the neighbor’s mail. I mean, really, … Continued
The Thirty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Last Sunday and today, we have a kind of theme going on in our Liturgy of the Word. Particularly in the Gospel readings, we have had the stories of two tax collectors. Last week, the tax collector drew … Continued
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