[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/071420.cfm" linkrel=""] I don’t know about you, but sometimes it can feel like that the walls are closing in around me. There are times when I just want to give up...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/071320.cfm" linkrel=""] Today in the Gospel, we hear these troubling words from Jesus, “do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring...
Continue Reading →[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EerhJyL0XXg[/embedyt] [button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/071220.cfm" linkrel=""] In today’s Gospel, we hear the parable of the sower, and one verse caught my attention, “The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/071120.cfm" linkrel=""] Today we celebrate the life and legacy of St. Benedict, the spiritual father of Benedictines, and the patron saint of Europe. Two documents have come down to us about...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/071020.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: Please join me this week on a journey, as we follow the Church's readings through the Book of Hosea, an ancient prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel....
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070920.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: Please join me this week on a journey, as we follow the Church's readings through the Book of Hosea, an ancient prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel....
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070820.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: Please join me this week on a journey, as we follow the Church's readings through the Book of Hosea, an ancient prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel....
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070720.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: Please join me this week on a journey, as we follow the Church's readings through the Book of Hosea, an ancient prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel....
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070620.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: Please join me this week on a journey, as we follow the Church's readings through the Book of Hosea, an ancient prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel....
Continue Reading →[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFg1QzLx-9E[/embedyt] [button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070520.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: Please join me this week on a journey, as we follow the Church's readings through the Book of Hosea, an ancient prophet to the northern...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070120.cfm" linkrel=""] Today is Independence Day (for those of you who receive this message in the United States)! What a wonderful day to give thanks for the blessings we have. These...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070320.cfm" linkrel=""] I used to watch a lot of episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In one episode an innocent man was accused of murder, and a priest was attempting to...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070220.cfm" linkrel=""] Amos faces the wrath of people who are unwilling to listen to the truth, these being Amaziah and King Jeroboam. Amos tells them the truth about what will befall...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/070120.cfm" linkrel=""] I can never figure out, for the life of me, why the demons requested being sent into the swine. They know that Jesus is the Son of God and...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/063020.cfm" linkrel=""] We read from the prophet Amos how God favored the people of Israel, and they did not return God’s love. Do two walk together...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062920.cfm" linkrel=""] Now we have the celebration of the two greatest Christian apostles. These two men, despite their weaknesses and shortcomings, helped to lay the foundation that the Church was built...
Continue Reading →[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1JD8uw5Z0[/embedyt] [button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062820.cfm" linkrel=""] After reading today’s selected passages, I thought about the promises God makes and how they are fulfilled. God has promised us His love for all ages....
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062720.cfm" linkrel=""] As we finish this week or reflecting upon our call to fearlessness and proclamation, we would benefit from recognizing that we, at times, must be the recipient of the...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062620.cfm" linkrel=""] Our first reading today is a sad story. It is the recounting of the destruction of the Temple and the Babylonian exile. Along with this story, I wish to...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062520.cfm" linkrel=""] Shifting gears today, let us briefly examine this often-heard Gospel passage, “Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” We might be tempted, as many...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062420.cfm" linkrel=""] “In the spirit and power of Elijah, John will go before the Lord to prepare a people worthy of him.” This antiphon, taken from Lauds for today’s feast, beautifully...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062320.cfm" linkrel=""] Continuing our journey toward fearless proclamation of the truth, we hear in today’s Gospel a very familiar phrase known as the Golden Rule, “Do to others whatever you would...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062220.cfm" linkrel=""] In yesterday’s reflection, the twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time, we reflected on the need to fear no one and to boldly proclaim the truth. Today, we continue along that...
Continue Reading →[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiAkx4YqGo[/embedyt] [button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062120.cfm" linkrel=""] "Fear no one." That's a bold statement of Christ, fear no one. In life, we are confronted by many things and many people who challenge this...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062020.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: During Ordinary Time, the entrance and communion antiphons of the Sunday liturgy are repeated throughout the week. In this way, the themes developed at the Sunday mass are...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061920.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: During Ordinary Time, the entrance and communion antiphons of the Sunday liturgy are repeated throughout the week. In this way, the themes developed at the Sunday mass are...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061820.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: During Ordinary Time, the entrance and communion antiphons of the Sunday liturgy are repeated throughout the week. In this way, the themes developed at the Sunday mass are...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061720.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: During Ordinary Time, the entrance and communion antiphons of the Sunday liturgy are repeated throughout the week. In this way, the themes developed at the Sunday mass are...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061620.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: During Ordinary Time, the entrance and communion antiphons of the Sunday liturgy are repeated throughout the week. In this way, the themes developed at the Sunday mass are...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061520.cfm" linkrel=""] Foreword: During Ordinary Time, the entrance and communion antiphons of the Sunday liturgy are repeated throughout the week. In this way, the themes developed at the Sunday mass are...
Continue Reading →[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncGQ_7DkKMQ[/embedyt] [button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061420.cfm" linkrel=""] Today’s liturgy begins with a quotation from Psalm 81: He fed them with the finest wheat and satisfied them with honey from the rock. This entrance...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061320.cfm" linkrel=""] “But I say to you...” With these words, we hear a turn from the Old to the New Covenant. What kind of mentality, what kind of attitude does one...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061220.cfm" linkrel=""] “But I say to you…” Jesus is talking about lust in our Gospel today. And what He has to say points right to the center of a person: to...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061120.cfm" linkrel=""] “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.” The righteousness that our loving Jesus calls...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/061020.cfm" linkrel=""] “I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” Jesus did not come to fulfill a text; he came to fulfill His Father’s will! When we translate this into...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/060920.cfm" linkrel=""] “(Y)our light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.” To be of Christ, with Christ, a disciple of Christ –...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/060820.cfm" linkrel=""] “Blessed are…” The Gospel today is about the Beatitudes. They are Christ’s way of showing us our true greatness! Pope Francis tells us that they are Christ’s way of...
Continue Reading →[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzu9tZf61i8[/embedyt] [button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/060720.cfm" linkrel=""] As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity, it is helpful to recall what we hear in our first reading today. Moses is addressing...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/060620.cfm" linkrel=""] Today is one of my favorite Gospel passages. We read of the poor widow who put her two cents in the collection. I see through my work in Conception’s...
Continue Reading →[button style="btn-primary btn-lg" type="link" target="true" title="Today's Mass Readings" link="http://usccb.org/bible/readings/060520.cfm" linkrel=""] When I read today’s readings, the first word that comes to my mind is perseverance. We all go through many trials and difficulties throughout our lives, sometimes on a...
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