21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 66: 18-21, Heb 12: 5-7, 11-13, Luke 13: 22-30 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Our first reading today comes from the time when the Jews were recovering from their long exile and enslavement in Babylon. It was a difficult time. Their cities, homes, and farms had lain in ruins [...]
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 38: 4-6, Heb 12: 1-4, Luke 12: 49-53 Dear Sisters and Brothers, The first reading describes the persecution of the prophet Jeremiah. Having tries in vain to save his people, Jeremiah was now abandoned to his enemies. Christians have always seen him as a figure [...]
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 18: 6-9, Hebrews 11: 1-2 8-19, or 11: 1-2, 8-12, Luke 12: 32-48 Dear Sisters, and Brothers, What does it mean to live a life of faith? The Letter to the Hebrew tells us that faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence [...]
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23, Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11, Luke 12:13-21 Dear Sisters and Brothers, “If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above.”—today most people find this way of thinking unacceptable. We want to live in this life, not in the life of the world to come. Many of us [...]
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Genesis 18: 20-32, Colossians 2: 12-14, Luke 11: 1-13 Dear Sisters and Brothers, “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Luke 11:9 If we were to take this statement of Jesus in [...]
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Genesis 18: 1-10a, Colossians 1: 24-28, Luke 10: 38-42 Dear Sisters and Brothers, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” Luke 10:41-42 It’s only [...]
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Deuteronomy 30:10-14, Colossians 1:15-20, Luke 10:25-37 Dear Sisters and Brothers, On this 15th Sunday of Ordinary time, we celebrate the God who is close to us both in His Word and in our neighbor. As the image of the unseen God, and as the Good Samaritan, Christ [...]
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 66: 10-14c, Galatians 6:14-18, Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 My Sisters and Brothers, Today the Lord invites us to follow Him and to preach His Good News to others. There is much joy in the readings today but also a sense of urgency and a bit of harshness. [...]
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time I Kg 19, 16-21, Gal 5, 1.13-18, Lk 9, 51-62 Dear Sisters and brothers, Today is the thirteenth Sunday of ordinary time. This Sunday, the church calls us to be fully committed to Christ. Without “Looking back,” we must freely “slaughter” all the forces, distractions, and obstacles that [...]
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Genesis 14:18-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Luke 9:11b-17 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, is about Jesus giving Himself to us to eat and to be transformed. Lots of the early disciples of Jesus left Him because of [...]