As food insecurity worsens across the GTA, the Catholic community is responding with its largest-ever contribution to fight hunger. ShareLife, the annual charitable appeal of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto (CCAT), and two...
Readings: Is 66:18-21; Heb 12:11-13; Lk 12:22-30
This Sunday, the church reminds us of the reunion of all God’s people at the feast of His kingdom. It is not only Jews and...
Readings: Jer 38:4-6. 8-10; Heb 12:1-4; Lk 12:49-53
In the first reading, the prophet Jeremiah suffered grave injustice for the sake of the message he preached. He became a man of dissension for...
Readings: Wis 18, 6-9; Heb 11, 1-2.8-19; Lk 12, 35-40
The concept of “God’s elect or God’s people” is very strong among the Jews. Biblically speaking, this is right...
Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23, Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11, Luke 12:13-21
These readings today invite us to think deeply about what we value and how we spend our time and energy. The basic teaching...
Readings: Genesis 18:20-32, Colossians 2:12-14, Luke 11:1-13
The first reading today is from the Book of Genesis and hands on to us this tradition that Abraham was so close to God and could negotiate...
Reading: Genesis18:1-10a, Colossians1:24-28, Luke10:38-42
The story of Jesus in the home of Martha and Mary complements the story of the Good Samaritan, which immediately precedes it in Luke's Gospel. Both stories are unique...
Readings: Deuteronomy 30:10-14, Colossians 1:15-20, Luke 10:25-37
The first reading today, from the Book of Deuteronomy, tells us that the Lord has already put these kinds of commands in our hearts. Why are we...
Readings: Isaiah 66:10-14c, Galatians 6:14-18, Luke 10:1-12, 17-20
Today the Lord invites us to follow Him and to preach His Good News to others. There is much joy in the readings today...
Readings: Acts 12.1-11 2 Timothy 4,6-8, 17-18 Mt. 16.18
The great Saints Peter and Paul exemplify to us that even if we are different and even if we have disagreements, we...
Karl Rahner in his scholarship on Christian faith, proposed a reduced creed from which all other Christian tenants flow. “All Christians must believe in the Trinity: God present, Christ sacrificed, and Holy Spirit moving us toward a future...
Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 Heb 7, 23-28 Mk 12, 28-34
It is Jesus Himself who teaches us the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity...
Readings: Acts 2:1-11 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23We celebrate this solemnity of 50 days after Easter as the fullness of Easter itself. It is the Holy Spirit who gives us any...
Readings: Acts 1, 1-11; Eph 1, 17-23; Lk 24, 46-53)
Our first reading from Acts of the Apostles recounts the events of the last moments and meeting of Christ with his apostles before his ascension...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2,22-29; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29
The words of Jesus at the Farewell Discourse during the Last Supper are intended as encouragement, concluding with a...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 14:21-27; Revelation 21:1-5; John13:31-35
An essential part of being a follower of Jesus Christ is a willingness to love. How many times have we heard with our ears...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 13:14, 43-52, Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 John 10:27-30
The first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, shows the early followers of Jesus willing to sacrifice and...
In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles we have the account of how the followers of Jesus could not stop speaking about Him. On the other hand, the Gospel recounts how they did not believe at first...
Readings: Acts 5:12-16 Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19 John 20:9-13
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II designated this Sunday...
Readings: Acts 10: 34. 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Mk 16:1-7
Easter means that God is on a collision course with injustice, with violence, with exploitation. God is against the betrayal of Judas, the denial...