Readings: Jeremiah 20:7-9 | Romans 12:1-2 | Matthew 16:21-27
Jeremiah is struggling with God, trying to push God out of his life because God wants too much. God does not allow this, but remains in Jeremiah...
Readings: Isaiah 22:19-23, Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20
We are invited to wonder how Peter came to be able to profess such a faith. Peter had been with Jesus and watching and sharing in the...
Readings: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7, Romans 11:13-15, 29-32, Matthew 15:21-28
Jesus lived and taught by his example, his way of living and his way of relating to others. The story in today’s...
Readings:1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a, Romans 9:1-5, Matthew 14:22-33
Most of us who hear homilies or read them are people are trying to serve the Lord. We know that sometimes all we can do...
Readings: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12, Romans 8:28-30, Matthew 13:44-52
The Kingdom of God is both an idea and a reality. It is an idea because we can think about it and ponder it. It...
Readings: Wisdom 12:13, 16-19, Romans 8:26-27, Matthew 13:24-43
The first reading is simply telling us that God is all-powerful but is gentle and always wants to give us time for repentance. We could...
Readings: Isaiah 55:10-11, Romans 8:18-23, Matthew 13:1-23
The Gospel takes up this same theme, but at great length. We are told by Scripture scholars that only the first part of this Scripture reading would...
Readings: Zechariah 9:9-10 Romans 8:9, 11-13 Matthew 11:25-30
Jesus is, we believe, truly God as well as truly human. Jesus humbles Himself to become human so as to redeem us. Jesus, by becoming a...
Readings: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a Romans 5:12-15 Matthew 10:26-33
The reading from the Second Book of Kings tells the story of Elisha repaying the kindness of a women who had no...
Readings: Jeremiah 20:10-13 Romans 5:12-15 Matthew 10:26-33
Today the first reading and the Gospel speak to us about proclaiming the Word of God to others and what that might mean in our own lives...
Readings: Exodus 19:2-6a Romans 5:6-11 Matthew 9:36—10:8
The more that we pray over these readings, the more they can affect us. When we list to the first reading, from the Book of...
Readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 John 6:51-58
The cup of blessing and the bread we break—the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. This solemnity repeats to...
Readings: Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 John 3:16-18
On this day on which we worship the mystery of the Trinity, we begin with Christ and we must listen to His own words...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23
None of the followers of Jesus, not even His mother, knew what would happen as they prayed for...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11 Ephesians 1:17-23 Matthew 28:16-20
Christ goes up to heaven. And surely that is one of the main points of today’s celebration. When we look at...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 8:5-8, 14-17 1 Peter 3:15-18 John 14:15-21
In the first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, it seems that listening to the Word of God is not...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7 1 Peter 2:4-9 John 14:1-12
The today’s first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, we are already hearing of the early structuring of the Church...
Readings: Acts: 2.14,36-41 1 Peter 2.22-25 John 10.1-10
The Lord is my Shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. The good shepherd offers everything for the sake of his flock...
Readings: Acts: 2.14,22-28 1 Peter 1.17-21 Luke 24.13-35
In the Emmaus story, Jesus as the stranger helps the two disciples to make sense of the past in a new light, they...