October 1, Friday TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 means of […]
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September 30, Thursday TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 came as […]
September 29, Wednesday TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 the last book of the Bible […]
September 28, Tuesday TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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, but in […]
September 27, Monday TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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. […]
September 26, Sunday Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time How easily we mistrust those who are different from us, of other races, peoples, political ideas or religions…. We label them and judge them without taking into account who they are, their stories, the good they do… But here comes Jesus, whose heart beats for all, and […]
September 25, Saturday TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 his people. They must […]
September 24, Friday TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 of each of us […]
September 23, Thursday TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME The Edict of Darius let the Jewish exiles return to Jerusalem. Much reconstruction was waiting for them, but those who had remained in the land feared to be dispossessed of the land they had occupied in the meantime. The prophet Haggai reprimanded the returnees for building […]
September 22, Wednesday TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME In his prayer of penance Ezra focuses his attention more on the goodness of God and his constant forgiveness notwithstanding the infidelities of his people, rather than on people’s sinfulness. Sin should make us turn to God in humility rather than make us withdraw within ourselves. […]