A gift freely given
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 4, 2024 Do you know where your food comes from? When I was growing up, my grandmother grew a lot of the food we ate. I’d watch her spend hours making each meal … Read More
Subtle Pairings
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 28, 2024 Over five Sundays, we will feast from the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel and on Jesus’s revelation as the living bread from heaven. Even in this comfort food, there is so … Read More
True Shepherding
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 21, 2024 Today, Jeremiah preaches scathing words against false shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock. After reading that passage, I wanted to send it to a few people with a note: “Woe … Read More
Is there dust on your feet?
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 14, 2024 Jesus sends us out into the world to announce the Gospel, and we should not be deterred when the message is not received. But there’s more the Spirit is saying to … Read More
Faithful Presence
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 30, 2024 Prophets gifted with wisdom or age know that true change is a marathon, a long-term, generational commitment to a goal they may never see fulfilled but work toward nonetheless. When the … Read More
Near enough
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 30, 2024 “Please, come lay your hands on her that she may get well and live,” says Jairus to the one at the center of the crowd’s attention. Jesus will take his dead … Read More
In the midst of the tempest
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 23, 2024 Today, we might focus on Jesus’s power to calm life’s storms and give thanks for God’s care for us. But the Lectionary’s wisdom of putting various Scripture passages in conversation with … Read More
Woven together
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 16, 2024 The connection between this passage from Ezekiel and today’s pericope from Mark is all the tree and planting imagery. But the Gospel takes on even deeper meaning when we look at … Read More
Becoming one
Body and Blood of Christ – May 26, 2024 The longer we wait to bring back the Communion cup, the quicker we will forget why we need it. The most important reason to share the cup is that Jesus told … Read More
God is Close to Us
Most Holy Trinity – May 26, 2024 We might dust off our theology school notes and review the Catechism and other texts to help us explain the Holy Trinity for this Sunday’s liturgies. We need to do this to ensure … Read More