Sunday’s Readings: Amos 6:1A, 4-7; Psalms 146:7, 8-9, 9-10; Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 Jubilee Year of Mercy – September 25, 2016 Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time –Jubilee for Catechists Amos castigates religious people who, “comfortably complacent” (6:1, 5), ignore the unfolding collapse of culture, nation, religion (6:6). In Jesus’ parable, such complacency becomes the rich man’s undoing. He neither hurt nor…
Sunday’s Readings: Amos 8:4-7; Psalms 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8; Timothy 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13 OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR OTHERS The Second Vatican Council has called us to envision the Church as the people of God. As a community of believers we are responsible for our brothers and sisters, their salvation, their journey of faith, their physical well-being. Many of the documents of Vatican II…
Sunday’s Readings: Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19; Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-32 Jubilee Year of Mercy September 11, 2016 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time When religious people complained that Jesus welcomed and ate with sinners, Jesus challenged them to change their image of God. Imagine God as a shepherd, abandoning ninety-nine obedient sheep to seek the stupid…
Sunday’s Readings: Wisdom 9:13-18; Psalms 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17; Philemon 9-10, 12-17; Luke 14:25-33 Jubilee Year of Mercy September 4, 2016 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time “If anyone comes to me without hating . . . father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his [or her] own life” (Luke 14:26). Hating? Can anyone imagine a…
Sunday’s Readings: Isaiah 66:18-21; Psalms 117:1, 2; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30 Jubilee Year of Mercy August 21, 2016 – Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time This Jubilee Year of Mercy and Pope Francis’ ministry have renewed our understanding that the Church’s heart is open wide to all, and the heart of the gospel is God’s mercy. Flooded with…
Sunday’s Readings: Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10; Psalms 40:2, 3, 4, 18; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 THE COSTS OF DISCIPLESHIP Today’s responsorial psalm, Psalm 40, is more familiar to us with the refrain “Here am I, Lord.” This “Here am I” is Jeremiah’s great prophetic response to God’s call. But today’s story of Jeremiah and the refrain “Lord, come to…
Sunday’s Readings: Wisdom 18:6-9; Psalms 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22; Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19; Luke 12:32-48 OUR FATHER IN FAITH The Letter to the Hebrews today sings a hymn of praise to Abraham and to his faith, upon which are founded the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham is called “father” in faith by more people on…
Sunday’s Readings: 1 Kings 19:16, 19-21; Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62 Jubilee Year of Mercy June 26, 2016 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yet again in Ordinary Time, Jesus seems to de-mand extraordinary commitment. A would-be disci-ple enthusiastically volunteers to follow Jesus “wherever” (Luke 9:57). Jesus replies that “wherever” means…