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SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A
The readings for today, encourage us to be patient. In the Gospel, Jesus speaks of the wheat and the weeds growing together until the harvest. The temptation is to want everything sorted out immediately – every problem solved; every uncertainty removed. Yet the wisdom of God is different from our own. We need to look at the story more carefully to understand why. Look at the weeds first.…
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A
Today and for two more Sundays in July, we will be focusing on the third discourse in Matthew. The parable of the Sower is complemented today by our first reading from Isaiah in which we hear the assurance that God’s Word “shall not return to me void but shall do my will achieving the end for which I sent it.” Isaiah testifies that God’s Word in itself is fruitful, not because of any human…
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A
The Christian faith has never allowed us to imagine that freedom alone is enough. Freedom is not an end in itself. The question before us is always: freedom for what? And it is precisely there that Jesus enters the conversation. “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest,” he reassures his followers in our Gospel story for today. Notice what…
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A
During the season after Pentecost, we focus on what it means to be a Christian. At Christmas we heard the Good News of Christ’s incarnation. The Easter acclamation – Alleluia! Christ is Risen! – is still ringing in our ears. At Pentecost we heard that we have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to be Christ’s body in the world. Now what? Well, according to Jesus in today’s reading from St.…
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A
In this week’s gospel, Jesus is teaching his disciples about their mission. He warns them of the persecutions and trials that they will face. Just as he, Jesus, faced opposition and rejection; so, will they. So too did the prophets, including Jeremiah, of whom we read in the first reading. Jesus seems to be thinking, to outline a little more clearly and a little more forcefully, just what it…
ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A
In the Gospel we are able to identify some key aspects of Christian discipleship. As Jesus travelled around Palestine, he was moved by the need for hope and healing among those who thronged to him, those Matthew calls, “harassed” and “helpless.” In Hebrew and Aramaic, the two languages familiar to Jesus, the word for compassion was found in the term for ‘womb.’ This means compassion for Jesus…
Corpus Christi A
The Holy Eucharist is a meal. On one level, it’s a simple meal of bread and wine. But with prayers and the Holy Spirit, with faith, it is the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. It can take us back—back perhaps to our very first communion. It can bring back memories of other churches, other altars, other fellow-believers. But it is more than that. This is what makes a Catholic…
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY Yr A
In the Gospel of John, we hear a clear statement: “ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.” (John 3:16). That is to say, in the incarnation, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, God has acted by the power of the Holy Spirit to save the world. This is, in many ways, just…
PENTECOST
After the initial experience of the Holy Spirit, we read further in the book of Acts, Peter begins his Pentecost sermon: “In the last days, God declares, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your and daughters will prophesy.” These words, spoken just 50 days after the tragedy of Good Friday and the bewilderment of Easter Sunday, changed the tone for the earliest followers of the Jesus…
ASCENSION A
Strikingly, today’s Gospel reading doesn’t include the Ascension. We learn of it instead from the Acts reading. “When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.” Today is the celebration of the feast of the Ascension. The book of Acts tells us that after Jesus’s resurrection, he spent forty days with the apostles. Then, after ordering them…
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER A
This week’s readings prepare us for Ascension Sunday next week, as they instruct Christians on how to live in the world while we wait for Christ’s return. In John’s account, Jesus speaks these words to his disciples just after the Last Supper, before he is betrayed and arrested, brought to trial, and put to death. Tucked into these words is a short phrase that catches my attention. Jesus…
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER A
One of the more common readings we hear at funerals is that portion of the gospel we just heard: “ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me.” If the congregation at a funeral recalls that the deceased lived a long life, shared love and kindness with others, then the words of Jesus sound consoling: an acknowledgment of present sorrow and a solemn promise of comfort…
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER A
Jesus often refers to his followers as sheep. Likely Jesus is picking up here on the familiar imagery of the twenty-third psalm, which describes God as a shepherd who guides us all the days of our lives. Jesus teaches that sheep know the shepherd’s voice when they hear it. Do we know the Good Shepherd’s voice when we hear it? Among the many, many competing voices in our world, one of the…
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER A
Today we get to hear the last of the resurrection appearances appointed for the Easter season. It’s one of several stories of the appearances of Jesus to various disciples after his resurrection. It is their testimony, passed on through the centuries, which inspires and instructs us about Jesus and his teachings about God and the meaning of life that he opened up and revealed for the whole…
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER A
Everything depends on the Resurrection, which is why there is no other Feast in the Church’s calendar which is celebrated with such solemnity. As we see in this week’s gospel passage Thomas was not with the others when Christ appeared on Easter night and refused to accept their testimony. In the original Greek of John’s gospel, the word “believe” is pisteuō (pist-yoo’-o), and it appears about…
EASTER SUNDAY
“ It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark.” Jesus’s disciples had scattered on Thursday night for fear of arrest. Then came the news on Friday of Jesus’s trial, torture, and death. By Saturday, the first followers of Jesus were hiding in the upper room in Jerusalem where they had celebrated the Passover with Jesus just Thursday evening. They are terrified of the might of…
Easter Vigil
As Christians all throughout the world gather on this night, we hear the words: This is the night, when once you led our forebears, Israel’s children, from slavery in Egypt and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea. This is the night that even now, throughout the world, sets Christian believers apart from worldly vices and from the gloom of sin,leading them to grace and joining them to his…