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Sunday April 14th: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
In today’s Gospel from Luke 22:33-60, Jesus says to Peter, “before the cock crows this day, you will deny three times that you know me.” Despite Peter’s disbelief, we know that Jesus’ prophecy comes true as Peter does in fact deny Him three times. It is difficult to imagine the feelings and emotion that within… | Continue reading..
Sunday April 7th: 5th Sunday of Lent
Note: Reflection on Year C Readings; Year A Readings will be used at 6PM RCIA Mass. In today’s 2nd Reading from Saint Paul to the Philippians 3:8-14, Saint Paul is speaking of having given up everything, to the point of considering all worldly things a loss so that he may, as he puts it, forget… | Continue reading..
Sunday March 31st: 4th Sunday of Lent
Note: Reflection on Year C Readings; Year A Readings will be used at 6PM RCIA Mass. Today we hear a very familiar Gospel, “The Parable of the Lost Son”. This is a beautiful story of a Loving Father that of course we relate to our Father in Heaven. The overwhelming love he shows… | Continue reading..
Sunday March 24th : 3rd Sunday of Lent
Note: Reflection on Year C Readings; Year A Readings will be used at 6PM RCIA Mass. On this 3rd Sunday of Lent, we are given two warnings. The first comes in St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians 10:12, as he explained that even those of God’s chosen people who desired evil things were… | Continue reading..
Sunday March 17th : 2nd Sunday of Lent
This week we hear from Luke’s Gospel 9:28-36, in the telling of the Transfiguration of Jesus. “While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses and Elijah.” Peter, John and James “had been overcome by sleep, but becoming fully awake,… | Continue reading..
Sunday March 10th : 1st Sunday of Lent
We hear in today’s Gospel from Luke 4:1-13, that Jesus was, “led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil.” As we make our own journey through Lent, we must pay attention to how the devil is tempting us in our lives. The first step is the actual… | Continue reading..
Sunday February 24th : 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the 2nd Reading from 1 COR 15:45-49, Paul writes of Adam, “the natural” and of Jesus, “the spiritual”. The reading concludes with the words, “Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.” In today’s Gospel from Luke 6, Jesus is speaking… | Continue reading..
Sunday February 17th : 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD.” These are the first words we hear in the First Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah 17:5. Who might the Lord be speaking of? If we were to do some… | Continue reading..
Sunday February 10th : 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the readings for this fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear from the Prophet Isaiah, Saint Paul and then from the Gospel of Luke with a focus on Jesus’ encounter with Simon Peter. In all three of these Scripture readings is an example of an admitted sinner who eventually does extraordinary works in God’s… | Continue reading..
Sunday February 3rd : 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today this Sunday as we are well into this period of the Liturgical Calendar between the Christmas Season and Lent, we must take care to avoid becoming too comfortable with ourselves and our daily lives. Especially here in our part of the world where the weather is now beautiful and there are countless activities… | Continue reading..
