Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord – August 6th Today’s feast recalls that moment when, shortly before His passion, Christ revealed His glory to His three closest Apostles. Jesus knew that His suffering and death would be a cause of scandal to them, and so He prepared them in advance by showing them […]
Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time – Mt 14:1-12 Today’s Gospel recounts for us the death of John the Baptist. Matthew’s Gospel, along with Mark’s account of the event, gives us some profound insights into Herod’s character, insights that can help us to grow in our spiritual lives. The context for the event
Friday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time – Mt 13:54-58 Today’s Gospel presents us with questions about faith, and how we respond to what it is that God does in our lives. Matthew tells us that when Jesus returns to his native place, those who heard Him in the synagogue were astonished. Even more,
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
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,
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