August 22, 2017 Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lectionary: 420 JGS 6:11-24A PS 85:9, 11-12, 13-14 MT 19:23-30 It is tempting to constantly pray for the difficulties of life to be passed from us. Even Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane asked to have that horribleContinue Reading
August 21, 2017 Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope Lectionary: 419 JGS2:11-19 PS 106:34-35, 36-37, 39-40, 43AB AND 44 MT 19:16-22 Today, in case you live under a rock, there was a solar eclipse over the United States. Many people traveled great distances to be in the path of totalContinue Reading
August 20, 2017 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 118 IS 56:1, 6-7 PS 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 ROM 11:13-15, 29-32 MT 15:21-28 Jesus has just had a heated exchange with the Pharisees and Scribes about the nature of sin. He talks about how that it is not what youContinue Reading
August 16, 2017 Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 415 DT 34:1-12 PS 66:1-3A, 5 AND 8, 16-17 MT 18:15-20 It often seems like we are getting nowhere in this world, especially when it comes to making it a better place. Our society has become rampant withContinue Reading
August 15, 2017 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass during the Day Lectionary: 622 RV 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB PS 45:10, 11, 12, 16 1 COR 15:20-27 LK 1:39-56 My grandfather used to stop by our house every day as he came home from his longContinue Reading
August 14, 2017 Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr Lectionary: 413 DT 10:12-22 PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 MT 17:22-27 During this time of extreme tension in our world politically and socially, perhaps no other martyr’s feast day could be more apropos than that of St. Maximilian Kolbe. MaximilianContinue Reading
August 13, 2017 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 115 1 KGS 19:9A, 11-13A PS 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 ROM 9:1-5 MT 14:22-33 When Moses first encountered God it was in the crackling fire of a burning shrub somewhere in the mountains of the desert. Later the Israelites would watchContinue Reading