THIRTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I WILL FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO Introduction The simple narrative of Abraham interceding for sinful Sodom and Gomorra is very rich in content. 1 All nations, even these twin cities of sin, can be blessed on account of Abraham if they show just a little faith […]
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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1. God Is Pro-Life 2. Life Is Victorious Greeting (see second reading) We are gathered in the name of Jesus: he was rich but became poor for our sake to make us rich out of his poverty. He brought us life and healing. May his life and grace […]
TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME GOD AS VISITOR, GREAT FAITH Introduction Our first reading in Year I speaks of the wonderful visit of God to Abraham to confirm his promise. The monk Andrei Rublev used this scene for his famous icon of the Blessed Trinity. God invites himself in our lives. […]
TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME A COMPASSIONATE HEART Introduction God renews his promises to Abraham. Immediately after the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew gives us a series of miracles of Jesus, the first of which is narrated in today’s Gospel, the cure of the leper. Jesus had spoken with power, now he […]
Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST A Finger and A Voice Greeting (See the First Reading of the Vigil) Do not be afraid to speak, says the Lord, for I am with you to protect you. I am putting my words into your mouth. Say whatever I command […]
TWELVE WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME BEARING GOOD FRUIT Introduction The certainty of faith is always a search for a fuller reality, which we do not yet possess. We have to learn to live with partial visions and to place ourselves trustingly into the hands of the God of the covenant, like Abraham. […]
TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE TWO WAYS Introduction Lot takes the rich, fertile plain that will be destroyed, Abraham the stony hills that his people will possess. The moralizing theme of the two ways, familiar to Jewish thought and also to Christian thinking from the early Church to the present […]
TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE BEAM IN YOUR OWN EYE Introduction A vague promise was all that Abraham had to go by when he followed the call of an unknown God: a land to be possessed not by himself but by his descendants, a numerous people to be born from him […]
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time With Jesus in the Storm Do Not Be Afraid Greeting (see Second Reading) The love of Christ overwhelms us. He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died and was raised up for us. May the Risen Lord […]
Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time LOOK AT THE BIRDS IN THE SKY Introduction Paul speaks of the extraordinary graces and experiences he had been given by God. Too often we worry much more than we should and about things that, after all, don’t matter much. Are not our fears and worries […]