Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
MATTHEW 14:13-21 (Isaiah 55:1-3; Romans 8:35, 37-39) In the context of this gospel reading, the disciples of John the Baptizer just reported to Jesus that John had been executed in prison by order of Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee. Jesus’ association with the...Read full story »
Monday, July 28, 2014
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Matthew 13:44-52; First Reading: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Second Reading: Romans 8:28-30 The gospel reading for this Sunday’s liturgy is the third in a series of readings from Matthew 13, the parable chapter. The parable chapter is the third of five major discourses attributed to Jes...Read full story »
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
MATTHEW 13:24-43 (Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Romans 8:26-27) Matthew’s third major discourse attributed to Jesus, the parable chapter, continues from last Sunday’s liturgy. The first parable: The Weeds Sown into the Wheat. This parable begins with the words, “Th...Read full story »
Monday, July 14, 2014
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
MATTHEW 13:1-23 (Isaiah 55:10-11; Romans 8:18-23) In composing his gospel Matthew constructed five major discourses or sermons he attributes to Jesus. Matthew’s concern is to present Jesus as the new Moses based on Deuteronomy 18:15-18, where we find these words, R...Read full story »
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
MATTHEW 11:25-30 (Zechariah 9:9-10; Romans 8:9, 11-13) We do not know the actual sequence of events during the ministry of Jesus in Galilee. From earliest times it was known and expressed that the authors of the gospels arranged events, etc., to suit their agenda. They arra...Read full story »
Monday, June 30, 2014
Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul
MATTHEW 16:13-19 (Acts 12:1-11; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18) St. Peter: Simon, son of John (Johnson). Nothing is known of him until Jesus, walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, calls him as one of the first four disciples along with Simon’s brother Andrew and the t...Read full story »
Monday, June 23, 2014
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Jesus
JOHN 6:51-58 (Deuternomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17) The gospel reading for the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus is part of a major dis-course attributed to Jesus in chapter six of the Gospel of John. This chapter, or parts of it, is known by various names: the Bre...Read full story »
Monday, June 16, 2014
The Most Holy Trinity
JOHN 3:16-18 (Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13) This gospel reading seems an unusual choice for Holy Trinity Sunday, since the Holy Spirit is not even mentioned – the Person of the Trinity whom Pope Francis recently spoke of as the Forgotten One. This gospe...Read full story »
Monday, June 09, 2014
Pentecost Sunday
JOHN 20:19-23 & ACTS 2:1-11 (Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13) The liturgy of the feast of Pentecost presents us with two ways of describing the infusion of the Holy Spirit into the Christian Community, the Church. Each of these two ways can be understood as the birthday o...Read full story »
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
The Ascension of our Lord
MATTHEW 28:16-20 (Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:17-23) In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus had not appeared to the eleven remaining apostles after his resurrection. Two women, Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” had come to the tomb of Jesus at dawn of the first day of th...Read full story »
Monday, May 26, 2014
