June 23, Wednesday TWELVE WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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. Christ […]
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June 22, Tuesday TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 – for example, […]
June 21, Monday TWELFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 though he was seventy-five, and […]
June 20, Sunday Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Where are you, Lord, when we suffer?” “Why do you sleep, Lord, when your Church is in pain?” “Why is there so much evil in the world?” These are often our cries when we feel threatened by the waves of misfortune and suffering and evil. […]
June 19, Saturday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time 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 mostly about things and events of […]
June 18, Friday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time 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 single-mindedly because God is […]
June 17, Thursday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time 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 prayer should […]
June 16, Wednesday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time 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. Giving – […]
June 15, Tuesday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Paul tells us today that churches that are better off must help those that are poorer. Here he applies this when he asks the Church of Corinth, a church of pagan origin, to help the impoverished poorer church of Jerusalem. Jesus concludes part of […]
June 14, Monday Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time “Do not accept the grace of God in vain.” Be always open to it. For “today is the acceptable time,” today is the day of grace. Do not let it pass! Are we willing to listen to the voice of Paul? Jesus tells us not […]