Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 10:1-7 Today’s Gospel gives us a sort of follow up to yesterday’s Gospel. Yesterday Jesus told His disciples to pray that God would send out laborers into His harvest, and today He fulfills, as it were, what He has promised: He sends His apostles out.[1] […]
Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time –Mt 9:32-38 Today’s Gospel presents us a very profound vision of Jesus Christ and our place in the world. We can consider three things: first, what Jesus sees and feels, second, what He does, and third, what we need to do. What Jesus feels, what He does,
Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 9:18-26 Today’s Gospel presents us a very interesting series of events: we have a miracle on the way to a miracle, a sort of story within a story, all of which casts light on the nature of suffering and the importance of faith. Matthew’s version
Sunday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time – Year AZec 9:9-10, Ps 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14, Rom 8:9, 11-13, Mt 11:25-30 As some of you may know, I am originally from Michigan, and sometimes when I go home, I stay at the rectory of the parish where I grew up. We’re blessed to have
Mary as Antitype In the first reading, we heard the story of Jacob and Esau and how, with the help of his mother Rebekah, Jacob was able to receive the blessing meant for Esau. In the Old Testament, we find a lot of people who serve as models or examples of people who are to
Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 9:9-13 In today’s Gospel we heard the calling of Saint Matthew, and the passage gives us an excellent opportunity to reflect on our own vocations in three ways: first, the time at which Christ calls, second, our sinfulness, and third, our obligation to spread
Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Option 1 – Mt 9:1-8 Today’s Gospel presents us with the well-known account of Jesus healing a paralytic after he was lowered through the roof. The Gospel passage is well-known, because it occurs in all three Synoptic Gospels (that is, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke).
Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 8:28-34 Today’s Gospel presents us with Matthew’s recounting of the healing of two demoniacs; most Biblical scholars take the incident to be a parallel account of a similar event presented by Mark and Luke. While there is a lot we could say about the episode,
*The Spanish word used is yerra, meaning the mark that is left after branding an animal; the Spanish footnote reads: Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (Madrid, 1992) 1502, vocablo «Yerra»: «R. de la Plata. Hierra, acción de marcar con hierro los ganados». I As we know, there are three sacraments that
Tuesday of the 13th week in Ordinary Time – Option 1 – Mt 8:23-27 Today’s Gospel presents a brief, but important, episode in the public life of Jesus. Clearly the event must have been recounted by one of the disciples, since they were the only ones to witness it. We can consider, first, the whole
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