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 usually sit. Sit in the very back … Read More
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, it is the outsiders coming in from … Read More
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 do many uncomfortable things. Recall some of … Read More
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 how patriarchal systems have shaped our everyday … Read More
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 happened by now, why be concerned? How … Read More
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 the rich man whom Jesus looked upon … Read More
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 or the Rite for Entrance into the … Read More
The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 20, 2025 We don’t know if Jesus’s arrival at Martha’s house was planned or an impromptu visit. Regardless, having a house guest always causes a disruption. We can choose to ignore them, … Read More
The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 13, 2025 Jesus never calls the Samaritan “good.” Instead, he calls him “neighbor.” Similarly, the priest and Levite weren’t “bad.” They just weren’t neighborly. Each of us can do both good and … Read More
The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 6, 2025 There is a disconcerting tendency among some Catholics and other Christians to claim persecution if they encounter any resistance to their faith. Let’s be clear. Critique, dispute, even dislike of … Read More