October 6th, 2022 – Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time (2) Today’s Gospel follows immediately after yesterday’s, wherein one of Christ’s disciples asked Jesus to “teach them to pray just as John taught his disciples.” As we said yesterday, there’s no record of any prayer that John offered, but, since he was a […]
October 5th, 2022 – Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel begins by telling us that “Jesus was praying, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.’” At first glance, this doesn’t seem to be very remarkable. Yet,
Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi (Reading from Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Tim) – October 4th, 2022 Today’s Gospel presents us with the well-known incident of Mary and Martha. We’re reminded of how God calls us to give ourselves entirely to Him and, especially as active and often busy people, we need
October 3rd, 2022 – Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel presents us with the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan, and although we’ve certainly heard it before, we can consider, first, the context of the parable and, second, how to apply it to our lives. The road from Jerusalem to Jericho
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 1st/2nd, 2022 – Lk 17:5-10 Dear brothers and sisters, today the Church presents us with the words of Our Lord regarding the importance of having faith, and not just any sort of faith, but rather a faith that really believes and puts that belief into action. We can
Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus Today’s Gospel presents us with what seems like three distinct moments in Christ’s reply to His disciples as they return from preaching the Good News. First, Christ tells His disciples that He has seen Satan fall, has given them power, and to rejoice that their names are
Memorial of Saint Jerome Today’s readings ask us to reflect on the way we serve God; the first readings from this week (when not interrupted by feasts) have all been centered on Job and his sufferings. At some point, Job gets to thinking that he really hasn’t ever done anything wrong. Today, God sets the
Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels Today’s feast of the Archangels is very important, especially for the world we live in. On one hand, we have people who want nothing to do with the saints, with Mary, with the Church, or with anything other than Jesus; they think that any other devotion somehow
In today’s Gospel, we confronted with three disciples who claim they want to follow Christ, but to whom Christ clarifies the requirements of discipleship. The first incident involves a man who tells Jesus, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the
Saint Vincent de Paul Today’s Gospel reading is a fascinating one, particularly because Luke uses a word three times in the original that doesn’t appear at all in the translation. That word is face.[1] Translated more literally, Luke tells us that Christ had “resolutely set His face” to go to Jerusalem, and that He sent
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