Scripture: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Reflection: Today’s readings highlight the challenge of observing the letter of the law versus understanding and following the spirit of the law. Moses gives the Israelites statutes and decrees as…
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31Matthew 25:14-30 Reflection: Happy Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time! When I think about all the decades I’ve been fortunate enough to know my parents, I always remember them both as being tremendously hard-working professional…
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:17-25Matthew 1:1-13 Reflection: Brothers and sisters, Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the Gospel, and not with the wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of…
Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9Mark 6:17-29 Reflection: In the first reading today Saint Paul greetings and gives thanks to the Church in Corinth. He gives his credentials of being called by Christ…
Memorial of Saint Augustine Scripture: 2 Thesslonians 3:6-10, 16-18Matthew 23:27-32 Reflection: Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. We all know stories of ‘bad boy’ Augustine! His early life was filled…
Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3a, 14-17Matthew 23:23-26 Reflection: In today’s Gospel reading, we Continue to hear Jesus’ criticisms of the Scribes and Pharisees. Today, Jesus says “Woe” to them because they focused on the minutiae of the Law while they “neglected…
Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 11-12Matthew 23:13-22 Reflection: There comes a time when you just have to lay things out boldly and unvarnished. There comes a moment when you cannot accept what is wrong and you stand for what is right…
Scripture: Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18bEphesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32John 6:60-69 Reflection: Our Gospel reading for Sunday (John 6:60-69) marks the end of the Bread of Life Discourse which we have been reading over the past few weeks. And, perhaps surprisingly,…
Scripture: Revelation 21:9b-14John 1:45-51 Reflection: Come to Me In most Eucharist liturgies a Psalm is presented to us as response to the Scriptural readings. In the feast of the apostle Bartholomew, we find this beautiful quote of Ps 145:18: The…
Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14Matthew 22:34-40 Reflection: In our first reading we have a dramatic account of the prophet Ezekiel being led “in the spirit of the Lord,” in the “center of the plain, which was now filled with bones.” And walking…