Lk 9:46-50 – Saints Cosmas and Damian Today’s Gospel presents us well-known lessons regarding humility and our service of God. Following fathers and doctors of the Church, we can consider three parts of the Gospel, and see how they apply to our lives.[1] We can consider, first, the temptation to pride, second, the way Jesus […]
Today’s Gospel presents us with Christ in Jerusalem. As He passed by the pool called Bethesda, He caught sight of a man who had been lying there 38 years, and performs a miracle to help him. Although these is a lot that could be said, we can consider two points of particular importance for this
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVEThursday of the Second Week of Lent Today’s Gospel presents us with the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. It calls our attention that in absolutely all His other parables, Jesus never gives a character a proper name: they are simply “a man,” “a woman,” and the like. Lazarus, a name
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Monday, 5th Week of Easter Last Thursday, we started taking the Gospel readings for daily Mass from the Last Supper discourse in John’s Gospel, and today’s Gospel continues with a sort of difficult passage. However, we can break it down and consider just two small pieces, and how they apply to
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Good Friday As we recall the Lord’s Passion and Death today, we are confronted with two very different ways of looking at reality. We have the worldly way, and the Christian way.In the eyes of the world, Calvary was nothing more than an insignificant hill that just barely stuck out of
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Tuesday of Holy Week In today’s Gospel John recounts for us the betrayal of Judas at the Last Supper. If we read carefully, we’re struck by just how merciful Jesus is, and we can see this in three of Christ’s actions towards Judas: first, where Judas was sitting, second, the giving
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Monday of Holy Week There’s a great deal that could be said about today’s Gospel, but one thing that calls our attention immediately is the great difference between Mary and Judas. Mary gives Jesus a very generous gift; we know that the oil is valued at 300 days’ wages. If we
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Monday, Fourth Week of Lent Today’s Gospel presents us with Christ in Cana in Galilee, and a royal official who comes to asks for a miracle on behalf of his son. Yet Jesus gives the man a surprising response, and the official repeats his request, which is then answered. There’s a
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Tuesday, Second Week of Lent Jesus ends today’s Gospel with a lesson about humility: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” “On her deathbed, being asked by one of the nursing Sisters in attendance what virtue was the most important and dearest to God, St.
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Monday, Second Week of Lent Today’s brief Gospel—all of three verses—contains Christ’s words telling us how we are to deal with our neighbors, namely, by being merciful as the Father is merciful, and by forgiving.Commenting on the difficulties that showing mercy and forgiving entail, Fulton Sheen tells us that calling to
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