Thursday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time – Odd Years – Mt 13:47-53 Today’s first reading focuses on the Dwelling place that Moses erected in the desert for the Ark of the Covenant. When completed, God comes into the Dwelling and covers it with a cloud. The cloud rises and leads the Israelites […]
Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time – Option 2- Mt 13:44-46 Today’s very brief Gospel presents two more parables of Jesus: that of the treasure buried in the field, and that of the pearl of great price. There are a few things that catch our attention about the passages: first, in both parables
There are two meanings of the word mystery: the first, and more common, refers merely to something that is unknown, to something hidden. In this sense we say, for example, “a mystery movie.” The other meaning refers to the things that God reveals, indicating that the fullness of something is too vast for man to
Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 13:36-43 Today’s Gospel presents us with the meaning of the Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat. The world is filled not only with the children of the kingdom, the good, but also with people who do bad things, evil things; yet, for some reason,
Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time – Odd Years – Mt 13:31-35 Today’s first reading and Gospel show us the consequences of the little things in our lives. The idolatry that the Israelites fall into doesn’t start as idolatry. They tell Aaron, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as
Sunday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time – Year A 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12, Ps 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130, Rom 8:28-30, Mt 13:44-52 In today’s Gospel we continue with the parables of Christ. Two weeks ago we heard the parable of the sower and the seed, and last week we heard of the
Feast of Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus – July 29th Today, as we celebrate the feast of Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, one of the Gospel passages presents us with an image of a family that many of us can probably relate to. We know that Martha was the sister of Mary and Lazarus,
Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 13:18-21 Today’s Gospel presents us with the explanation of the Parable of the Sower. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus says directly, “The seed is the word of God” (8:11), and the different grounds are the different souls of believers. We have four different sorts of grounds,
Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Odd Years – Mt 13:10-17 Today’s first reading and Gospel present us with the mystery of God. In the first reading, the Israelites station themselves at the foot of Mount Sinai, and they experience “peals of thunder and lightning, a heavy cloud over the mountain, and
Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary – July 26th Today we celebrate the memory of Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and hence grandparents of Jesus. That house must have been perpetually shrouded in an aura of majesty because of the great mystery
