Queenship of Mary Today we celebrate the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The feast was instituted in 1954 by Pope Pius XII with the encyclical letter Ad Caeli Reginam, and falls on the octave of the Assumption. Summarizing centuries of tradition, Saint Alphonsus Ligouri explained why Mary is a Queen by saying simply, “because […]
Monday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 19:16-22 Today’s Gospel reminds us of the great dignity of our vocations as Christians and, to those who are in religious life, to that vocation in particular. In today’s Gospel we see God’s love for the people He has chosen for His own.
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Is 56:1, 6-7, Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8, Rom 11:13-15, 29-32, Mt 15:21-28 Today’s readings remind us how God calls each and every one of us to be a saint. In the first reading, Isaiah prophesizes that people from all over will “join themselves to the Lord,
Saturday of the 19th Week of Ordinary Time – Mt 19:13-15 Today’s short Gospel gives us a glimpse into the life and ministry of Jesus. We’re told that children “were brought to Jesus.” In Luke’s Gospel, we’re told particularly that infants were brought to Jesus, presumably by their mothers. There must have been something
Friday of the 19th Week of Ordinary Time – Mt 19:3-12 Today’s first reading and Gospel point out two important characteristics of love, be it the love God has for us and that we should have for Him, or the love that spouses should have for each other, which is an image of that
Thursday of the 19th Week of Ordinary Time – Option 2 – Mt 18:21–19:1 Today’s Gospel brings us face to face with the reality of sin and the need to forgive. Peter asks if forgiving his brother seven times is sufficient: recall that in Genesis Cain was to be avenged seven times over, and
Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 18:15-20 All of us here know people, perhaps even members of our family, who lead lives that are contrary to what Christ wants, and so all of us can learn a great deal from what we’ve just heard. The Gospel focuses on the need to
Solemnity of the Assumption – August 15th Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption, a dogma defined in 1950 by Venerable Pius XII, with the words: “we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of
Saint Maximilian Kolbe – August 14th Today we celebrate the memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan who was martyred on this day during the Second World War after offering his life in exchange for one of his fellow prisoners. This is the heroic act that we usually associate with Saint Maximilian, but we’d
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A 1 Kgs 19:9a,11-13a; Ps 85:9-14; Rm 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 Today’s Gospel teaches us a great deal about trust in God and about divine providence. We can consider three points: first, what the disciples feared, second, Peter’s sinking, and, lasting, Christ’s kingship. First, the disciples were
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