Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time They Become One May Our Love Last Greeting All praise be to God our Father for creating people in his likeness and making them capable of faithfulness through the self-giving love of his Son and the unifying power of the Spirit. May the Lord be always with […]
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Daily Liturgy
TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE JOY OF LIBERATION The Guardian Angels Introduction In the 2nd century before Christ, a prophet borrowing the name of Baruch makes Jerusalem speak a message of hope and joy to her scattered children in the Diaspora. God will liberate them from their infidelities. Today we hear the closing […]
TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME SIN – IN US Introduction The reading from Baruch is not from the hand of Baruch, who was the secretary of Jeremiah. It dates from the time of the Maccabees and is like a penitential celebration deploring the sins that had led to the present calamities and oppression. Modern […]
TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME GOD’S WORD AND COMMUNITY Introduction In the first reading we see how the Feast of Tabernacles, originally a harvest feast for wheat and vintage, was spiritualized into a feast remembering the exodus and the renewal of the covenant. The Word of God was read to the people. The word […]
TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Feast of the Archangels, STS. MICHAEL, GABRIEL, RAPHAEL Introduction We know that God loves us, that he protects us and guides us to our destiny. In the Bible, angels are presented God’s messengers to people, to help us to carry out God’s plans. The archangel Michael is mentioned in […]
TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME A MISSIONARY COMMUNITY Introduction If God lives in the community of his faithful, this community is by itself missionary, for it reveals the face of God; by its witnessing, it attracts others. The prophet Elijah did not find God in the storm wind or the earthquake or the fire, […]
TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LIKE CHILDREN Introduction Today’s chapter of Zechariah is a later addition by his disciples. It pictures the restoration of a remnant, with faithful people, young and old, in the streets of Jerusalem, and God living among them. Childlike, but not childish… We are God’s children, yet not infants. We […]
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time No Monopoly on the Spirit Many Gifts, One Spirit Greeting (See 1 Cor 12:4-7) There is a variety of gifts, but they come from the same Spirit, all sorts of service, but to the same Lord, many forms of work, but all of them, in all people, […]
TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I WILL LIVE AMONG YOU Introduction The prophet Zechariah gives us today a vision of joy, hope and universalism. The rebuilding of the Temple and of Jerusalem after the exile assures that God lives in the midst of his people and that many nations will find God there, among […]
TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME WHO AM I TO YOU? Introduction The prophet Haggai exhorts the Jews after their return from the exile to give everything, even their silver and gold, for the reconstruction of the Temple. Then the living God will be present among them and he will give them peace. Jesus asks […]