Our entire being
The Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 7, 2025 In the ordination of a Priest, as the bishop hands over the bread and wine to the newly ordained, he says to him,... Read More
See your church from a different perspective
The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 31, 2025 Want to know the best way to get a better sense of what your parish is really like? Sit some place you don’t... Read More
A welcome table for all
The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 24, 2025 Those welcomed to the table in today’s Gospel reading are not the insiders—members of the master’s household or his neighbors and friends. Rather,... Read More
“Lord, come to my aid!”
The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 17, 2025 Jesus’s words today don’t bring much comfort. But our comfort isn’t the goal of faith in Christ. Following Christ will call us to... Read More
Not for the faint of heart
The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – August 15, 2025 In society and the church, women continue to be vanguards of God’s reign. There is more awareness now of... Read More
This very hour
The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 10, 2025 With Christ’s Ascension two millennia ago, it is challenging to take seriously the urgency of today’s Gospel reading. If Christ’s second coming hasn’t... Read More
Our need for the other
The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 3, 2025 Jesus does not condemn the rich for being rich. Think of Zacchaeus, the wealthy tax collector who received Jesus’s blessings (Lk 19:1–10) or... Read More
Waiting to be let in
The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 27, 2025 Today you might consider celebrating either the Order of Reception into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church of Those Already Validly Baptized... Read More