We began our Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday. This first Sunday of Lent now leads us immediately into Jesus’s own journey into the desert…
The theme of today’s readings is God’s loving compassion and healing. We, too, are called to be loving, as well as…
This Sunday, the readings invite us to look more deeply into the experience of human suffering. It is only through Christ that our…
The readings this week reflect the Psalm response: O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden not your heart. This was the response of the Israelites when they grumbled at…
In the First Reading, Jonah takes the word of God to the people in Nineveh. They hear it, are inspired to change their evil ways, and God shows them his mercy. God’s love and forgiveness are at the heart of the Psalm, as we pray…
Today’s readings conclude the feast of Christmas and begin the new season of Ordinary Time. In the First Reading we hear the Lord’s dramatic call of Samuel, and how Samuel fails to hear and discern it properly at first. The young Samuel might well have grown up praying with words like those in today’s Psalm…
Today’s feast is telling us that for God there are no foreigners, no outsiders. From his point of view, all are equally beloved children. We all, whatever external physical or cultural differences there may be between us,.…
The Gospel for today presents the head of the Holy Family, Joseph, faithfully obeying God’s law given through Moses concerning the purification of the mother and the redeeming of the child by presenting Mary and the Baby Jesus in the Temple.…
King David wanted to build a fine temple in which God would dwell among the people. But God did not choose a building made of stones and mortar for a dwelling place but the womb of the virgin Mary.…
The readings on this Gaudete (Rejoice!) Sunday are full of encouragement, resonating with joyful hope as we draw closer to the birthday of Jesus: God’s Son coming to live among us.…
Advent is a sacred time of longing and preparation for the Lord; a time for waking up to listen to the Spirit calling deep within us…
As we begin the season of Advent, the readings continue to focus not just on the coming of Christ at the end of time, but also on…
The scripture texts of this solemnity, on the last Sunday of the Church year, sum up what we have been reading, listening to, and pondering all year. We have watched as Jesus…
The readings in this final week of Ordinary Time Year A remind us again of the need to be always prepared for…
Running throughout the readings this Sunday are themes of longing, seeking, and purposeful attentiveness…
In our readings for this Sunday, we hear how easy it is for human pride and laxity to diminish…
The readings for this week invite us to consider how to live as followers of Jesus in our communities…
Today’s readings concentrate on God as ruler over all the world. The First Reading teaches us about the relationship between…
As the end of the liturgical year gradually approaches, the readings begin to focus on the kingdom of heaven and the era beyond…
The image of the people of God as a vineyard is familiar in the Scriptures. We can rejoice in seeing the…