Tuesday of the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time – Mk 12:13-17 Today’s Gospel presents us with a well-known incident in Christ’s life: while there’s a lot we could say, we can consider three details that can be useful for our meditation: first, the fact that Jesus doesn’t have a coin on Him, second, the …
Monday of the Ninth week in Ordinary Time – Mk 12:1-12 Today’s Gospel serves as an excellent reminder of what our lives are about and how God provides us with what we need. Although we’ve probably heard the parable of the tenants before, it helps to examines what Jesus is telling us about God …
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity – Year A Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Catechism tells us that “the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life”: in other words, out of all the many mysteries that we are called …
Saturday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time – Mk 11:27-33 In today’s Gospel, we’re immediately struck by two things: first, the apparent inability of the chief priest, the scribes, and the elders to see who Jesus is, and second, and more importantly, the reason why they can’t see this. Regarding the first, out of …
Friday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time – Mk 11:11-26 Friday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time – Mk 11:11-26 Sometimes there are Gospel passages that make us shake our heads and wonder what is going on. This passage might be considered one of them: Jesus makes it to the Temple, looks …
Thursday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time – Mk 10:46-52 Today’s Gospel presents us with a blind man named Bartimaeus who shouts as he finds himself in the midst of a crowd as Christ was leaving Jericho. It was common for rabbis of the time to teach as they went walking, and we …
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – May 31st Today we celebrate the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when our Blessed Mother went to the house of her cousin Elizabeth. While there is a great deal that can be said, we can focus on two virtues of Mary …
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time – Mk 10:28-31 Today’s Gospel continues to examine the costs and rewards of following Jesus. Yesterday’s Gospel presented the rich young man, who goes away sad after Jesus tells him to give up his material possessions, but today’s Gospel has Peter asking about the rewards that …
Memorial Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church Today we celebrate the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church. Although this is only one of the first times the universal Church has celebrated it (it began only in 2018), the memorial itself and the invocation aren’t new: in fact, the Church in Argentina, Poland, and …
Pentecost Sunday – Option 1 Dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the Solemnity of Pentecost, which literally means “the fiftieth day,” in this case, the fiftieth day after Resurrection Sunday. It marks the end of the Easter season and also the birthday of the Church, since the Holy Spirit comes down to strengthen …
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