Sunday’s Readings: 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21; Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62
……from your Pastor’s Desk – Nobody Sunday? – For the last 16 Weekends every Sunday has had a title from ‘The First Sunday of Lent’ on March 6th up until last week’s feast of ‘The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ’. So, when I first looked at the readings for today – I saw it was just ‘The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time’. I jokingly said to myself – aha – ‘Nobody Sunday’. …
Sunday’s Readings: Genesis 14:18-20; Psalms 110:1, 2, 3, 4; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17
……from your Pastor’s Desk – HAPPY FATHER’S DAY – I am constantly amazed at how God can bring good out of bad. Case in point, I can’t tell you how many fathers got to spend time with their children over these last 2 years. …
Sunday’s Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalms 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15
……from your Pastor’s Desk – The Mystery of The Most Holy Trinity – It is Jesus Himself who teaches us the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. The Gospel today, from Saint John, is clear that Jesus understood both Father and Spirit. The development of this doctrine takes time because Jesus was not a teacher of philosophy or of theology. Jesus lived the mystery and spoke in such a way that we are able to come to understand it. …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11; Psalms 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; OR Romans 8:8-17; John 20:19-23
……from your Pastor’s Desk – HAPPY BIRTHDAY! – A few years back, we had a very cool conflation of celebrations. Mother’s Day and Pentecost were on the same day. And, as was brought to my attention just before mass that day, a mother and her daughter were both celebrating their birthdays on that same day! A mother’s birthday has a special appeal. It usually evokes a significant response in family members, especially in the strays. …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11; Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; Ephesians 1:17-23; OR Hebrews 9:24-28; 10:19-23; Luke 24:46-53
……from your Pastor’s Desk – MEMORIAL DAY – Dear God, Your Word tells us, “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the Lord guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch” (Psalm 127:1). Thank You for those who have guarded not only our cities, but our country, allies, and many other communities from unjust and unprincipled aggressors. …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2, 22-29; Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29
……from your Pastor’s Desk – In today’s Gospel, Jesus says to His disciples: “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.” …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 14:21-27; Psalms 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Revelation 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35
……from your Pastor’s Desk – “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” A theme of today’s Mass is Love – a subject that is so easy to write badly about, so hard to write well about. There exists a tendency in all of us to place love (and all the things that challenge us) at a distance. …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 13:14, 43-52; Psalms 100:1-2, 3, 5; Revelation 7:9, 14b-17; John 10:27-30
……from your Pastor’s Desk – Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 5:27-32, 40b-41; Psalms 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 OR 21:1-14
……from your Pastor’s Desk – Do You Love Me? – Jesus asks Peter a question in Sunday’s Gospel. How would you feel if he asked the same question of you? …
Sunday’s Readings: Acts of the Apostles 5:12-16; Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19; John 20:19-31
……from your Pastor’s Desk – “Thinking Thomas” – No Doubt. – There is something to be said for doubt at times. It is a good thing to be able to doubt oneself, provided it doesn’t become an addiction that cripples us; to doubt one’s ideas, one’s principles, one’s work…. And to doubt much of what we hear. …