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Faith

Is your faith alive?

Fr. Christopher Etheridge, IVEMemorial of St. John Bosco Christ Pantocrator, Mosaic in the Baptistry of San Giovanni of Florence, ca. 1300. How well do you know Jesus Christ? After hearing this Gospel, we should all take a moment to seriously ask ourselves this question. Our condition as religious, or even as Christians for that matter does not guarantee that we have a living faith in Jesus Christ.In today’s Gospel, Jesus’ “very own”, “his fellow countrymen” […]

January 2, 2018 No Comments

From the Pulpit

Citizens of Heaven and Earth

Fr. Theodore Trinko, IVE29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – World Mission SundayPreached at The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” This is the response which stumped the Pharisees’ minions. We didn’t read it today but the very next verse describes how these henchmen were “amazed” or dumbfounded at the response. They attempted to corner Jesus with a moral conundrum only to be taught a […]

November 26, 2017 No Comments

Blessed Virgin Mary

St. Luke & Our Blessed Mother

Fr. Theodore Trinko, IVEFeast of St. Luke, EvangelistHomily Preached at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitburg, MD St Luke Painting the Virgin – By Georgio Vassari Today we are celebrating the feast day of a saint whose name we’ve heard on a daily basis in the Mass for several months: St. Luke. Almost every day the Gospel reading regarding Our Lord’s life is taken from the account which this evangelist wrote. As an author of one of the four Gospels, St. Luke is […]

November 18, 2017 No Comments

From the Pulpit

Hypocrisy, Humility, and Mercy

Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVETuesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time In today’s Gospel, Jesus continues with His rebukes of the unbelieving Pharisees. Here, a Pharisee invited Him to partake of a meal at his house, and is astonished when Jesus doesn’t perform the ceremonial washing of hands as prescribed by the law.The word Luke uses to describe the Pharisee’s reaction is ἐθαύμασεν (ethaumasen); it means to be awestruck or even a […]

November 17, 2017 No Comments

Daily Life

Take Nothing, Give Everything

Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVEMemorial of St. Vincent de Paul In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives His apostles authority and sends them out. There are two things that call our attention: first, Luke tells us that Christ “sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.” There’s two things: preaching, and healing. Indeed, they do just that, as Luke ends the passage by saying: “Then they set out and went from village to village proclaiming the good news and […]

October 27, 2017 No Comments

Blessed Virgin Mary

Doers of the Word

Fr. Theodore Trinko, IVETuesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time The risen Christ appears to the Virgin Mary. Line engraving R. Strange, 1773 Today’s Gospel should be one of great relief for us. In it we heard Jesus lay down the conditions of being in his family:1) hearing the word of God and 2) acting on it.This was a great change from the belief of the Jewish people up to that point. In order to belong to God’s Chosen People in the fullest sense of the word, o […]

September 26, 2017 No Comments

From the Pulpit

Are you Envious?

Fr. Theodore Trinko, IVE25th Sunday in Ordinary Time “The Judgment of Solomon”, William Blake The word capital has a lot of different meanings. It could refer to an important city from which a region is governed, and so Annapolis is the capital of Maryland. It could refer to a letter which differs from its lowercase version in height and form. In economics, capital is that surplus of wealth or assets used to begin a new enterprise. In architecture, it refers to the highest point of a col […]

September 25, 2017 No Comments