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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent – Lk 18:9-14 Dear brothers and sisters, today the Church presents us with Our Lord’s words about the importance of humility and its intimate connection with prayer. Humility is one of the most important and fundamental virtues in the spiritual life. According to one tradition, Saint Bernard was

Friday of the Third Week of Lent – Mk 12:28-34 Today’s Gospel narrative takes place after Jesus has successfully refuted groups of Pharisees, Herodians, and Sadducees; the Pharisee in today’s Gospel is the only good Pharisee that Mark presents in his entire Gospel, and it’s interesting to note why the Pharisee approaches Jesus in the

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent – Lk 11:14-23 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 will