Breaking the cycle
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time – November 3, 2024 On this Sunday before Election Day in the United States, the Lectionary gives us a blessing in disguise. Today’s pericope of the greatest commandment... Read More
A great cloud of witnesses
Solemnity of All Saints and The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed – November 1-2, 2024 Time is a liturgical symbol created by God and regulated by the cosmos. In each particular day... Read More
Following with joy
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 27, 2024 At the edge of Jerusalem, after misunderstandings, disappointments, and misguided requests by Jesus’s followers and would-be disciples, we finally find a worthy companion for... Read More
More than a metaphor
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 20, 2024 In Mark’s Gospel, the language about the cross and what it requires is violent and unambiguous. Jesus will suffer greatly and be rejected, killed,... Read More
Doing the impossible
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 13, 2024 Does Jesus want us to sell everything we have to inherit eternal life? Or is this another hyperbole to get our attention? Recall that... Read More
God gives us one another
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 6, 2024 Hopefully no one in their homily last week advocated for self-harm or mutilation as an actual response to human weakness. We do not interpret... Read More
Boundless mercy
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 29, 2024 To really understand today’s Gospel and Jesus’s over-the-top rant, read the verses of Numbers 11 that lead up to today’s first reading pericope. Moses... Read More
Be last to be first
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 22, 2024 Last week Jesus left us with this paradox: Lose your life to save it. He continues this week saying that to be first, one... Read More