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Sunday September 1st: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel from Luke 14:1, 7-14, Jesus is dining “at the home of one of the leading Pharisees.” Jesus, noticing how the people were, “choosing places of honor at the table”, proceeds to tell them a parable. He speaks of when they are invited to a banquet, they should take the “lowest place”… | Continue reading..
Sunday August 25th: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel from Luke 13:22-30, Jesus is asked, “will only a few people be saved?” In response, Jesus does not quantify an answer. Instead, he challenges those present to, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate”. The question posed may lead us to wonder what the individual was really asking. Were they… | Continue reading..
Sunday August 18th: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
What is your biggest fear? Even the thought of our biggest fear may run a shiver down our spine. It could be a fear of heights, snakes, insects… The list goes on. What most of us never think about is a fear almost all of us have deep down inside. It is a fear… | Continue reading..
Sunday August 11th: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Where is God in the list of priorities in your life? Do you procrastinate God and your faith? Do not be misled by the question as it does not imply that there is a list of boxes to check when it comes to living our faith. It is just that, living our faith. As simple as… | Continue reading..
Sunday August 4th: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Why do we practice our faith? Why do we attend Mass? These are questions we should be able to answer in some form though there are many ways to answer them. Let us ask the same question about why the people were flocking to get close to Jesus in today’s Gospel from Luke 12:13-21…. | Continue reading..
Sunday July 28th: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s Readings teach us much about the importance of prayer and how prayer is not only a dialogue between us and our Lord but that it requires a relationship between us and our Lord. In the first reading from Genesis 18:20-32, Abraham is using intercessory prayer on behalf of the city of Sodom when… | Continue reading..
Sunday July 21st: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This Sunday’s Gospel from Luke 10:38-42 may be a bit confusing upon a first reading. Martha is working hard, serving and cleaning while her sister Mary sat at Jesus’ feet, seemingly doing nothing. Where is the fairness in this situation? Surely many of you reading this would empathize with Martha here. Especially taking into… | Continue reading..
Sunday July 14th: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel from Luke 10:25-37 we hear again about The Greatest Commandment, in response to a scholar of the law asking what he must do to inherit eternal life, Jesus responds, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” (LK 10:26) The scholar “said in reply, ‘You shall love the… | Continue reading..
Sunday July 7th: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.” This is the message we take from this Sunday’s readings. This we sing joyfully in the Responsorial Psalm and this we are called to as we journey back out into the world this week. In the 2nd reading from the Letter from St. Paul to… | Continue reading..
Sunday June 30th: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s readings we hear a consistent message about what it means to be a follower of Christ, a disciple. Beginning in the first reading from 1 Kings 19, in verse 20 after Elijah throws his cloak on Elisha, symbolizing his being chosen as successor as prophet, Elisha immediately thinks of what will be… | Continue reading..
