Our entire being
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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

A welcome table for all
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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!”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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