Category Archives: Daily Liturgy

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 […]

  Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time   WHERE IS OUR TREASURE?   Introduction       In defending his ministry, Paul boasts of all he has done and suffered in the service of the Gospel of the young Christian communities. These sufferings affect and hurt him, for they bring out his human frailty. But he goes on […]

Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time   TRUSTFUL PRAYER   Introduction             Paul pleads to the Corinthians to remain faithful to Christ, who had chosen him to be his apostle and had sent him to Corinth.       In the words of Jesus, Matthew gives us today a catechesis on prayer. The reason and basis of our […]

Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time   GIVING GENEROUSLY   Introduction Both Jesus and Paul in Year I speak to us today on sincere and generous sharing. To Paul, the generous, spontaneous givers are ministers of God’s goodness; by giving thanks to God for what they themselves have received they are further enriching themselves by sharing. […]