Present in mystery
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time – Feb 23, 2025 Jesus’s lessons this Sunday from his sermon on the plain are especially necessary today in our polarized church and nation. When people are entrenched... Read More
Side by side
Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Feb 16, 2025 Before the passage from today’s Gospel, we find Jesus choosing his twelve closest partners. Many more had begun following him, compelled by his miraculous... Read More
Gathered and blessed
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord – Feb 2, 2025 This year, several feasts and solemnities will interject a specific focus of the paschal mystery into the Sundays of Ordinary Time. Today... Read More
Made for the occasion
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time – Jan 26, 2025 “Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that had been made for the occasion” (Neh 8:4). When Ezra read to the people from... Read More
Break forth in our midst
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time – Jan 19, 2025 What would have happened at the banquet if Mary had not paid attention to the kitchen staff and spoken up when she saw their... Read More
The closeness of God
Fourth Sunday of Advent – Dec 22, 2024 “Do not forget that closeness, proximity, was God’s most authentic language,” said Pope Francis. “That style of God, of closeness, went farther, farther and farther... Read More
Make room for Christ’s joy
Third Sunday of Advent – Dec 15, 2024 Today we get the great opening line from the second reading: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I say it again: rejoice!” (Phil 4:4). Why is... Read More