Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Is 45:1, 4-6, Ps 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10, 1 Thes 1:1-5b, Mt 22:15-21 Today’s readings remind us that God is really the one in charge of the world, that He’s the one who controls everything, and even those who don’t know Him or even declare […]
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Saturday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time – Lk 12:8-12 Today’s Gospel is only five verses, but there is a lot of food for thought here. In fact, we could divide this Gospel into three sections: the first regarding the acknowledgement or rejection of Jesus, the second regarding the unforgiveable sin of blasphemy
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Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time – Lk 12:1-7 In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues to speak against the Pharisees, but this time His words are meant only for His disciples. At one point, the discussion shifts to speak of fear, and Jesus’ words seem rather surprising: “I shall show you whom to
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Feast of Saint Isaac Jogues, Saint John de Brebuef, and Companions – Option 2 – October 19th If we read carefully the history of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, one of the great Catholic missionary organizations of the past three centuries, we find a ritual, a departure ceremony for priests leaving for their assignments
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Saint Luke – October 18th Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Luke, the evangelist, who authored the Gospel that bears his name, as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Tradition holds that Luke was a physician, a fact attested to not only by a passage from Paul’s letter to the Colossians, where he
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Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time – Lk 11:37-41 In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues with His rebukes of the unbelieving Pharisees. Here, a Pharisee invited Him to partake of a meal at his house, and is astonished when Jesus doesn’t perform the ceremonial washing of hands as prescribed by the law. The word
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Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time – Lk 11:29-32 In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a very harsh rebuke to those scribes and Pharisees who ask for a sign, as we heard in last Friday’s Gospel. We can consider, first, what it was the scribes and Pharisees were asking for, and why it was
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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Is 25,6-10a, Ps 22, 1-6, Phil 4,12-14.19-20, Mt 22,1-14 Weddings are supposed to be happy events, a joy-filled occasion to get together with friends and family to celebrate the sacrament that unites a man and a woman as one flesh until death. It’s in the context
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Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time – Lk 11:27-28 Today’s very brief Gospel, two verses, is taken from Luke’s Gospel, and we can see clearly two parts. First, as Saint Bede explains, we hear a woman boldly confess Jesus’ incarnation: “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you
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Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time – Lk 11:15-26 Today’s Gospel from Luke comes immediately after Christ tells His listeners that they’ll receive what they ask for in prayer. In verse 13, Christ tells them “If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
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