July 27, 2017 Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 398 EX 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20B DANIEL 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 MT 13:10-17 In the modern day of the internet, we seem to have a paradox. While on one hand, we have one we have a nation ofContinue Reading
July 23, 2017 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 106 WIS 12:13, 16-19 PS 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 ROM 8:26-27 MT 13:24-43 My friend, who I will refer to as the Huckleberry, and I were just talking the other day about our summer assignment. As men going from Aspirancy into Candidacy,Continue Reading
July 25, 2017 Feast of Saint James, Apostle Lectionary: 605 2 COR 4:7-15 PS 126:1BC-2AB, 2CD-3, 4-5, 6 MT 20:20-28 Our world has become one of comfort. In the United States especially, we have become almost hedonistic in the way we view things. We want our burgers our way, ourContinue Reading
July 24, 2017 Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 395 EX 14:5-18 EX 15:1BC-2, 3-4, 5-6 MT 12:38-42 The Israelites had found a new freedom as they journeyed out of Egypt. The men and women who had seen God work his mighty miracles for them, saving themContinue Reading
July 21, 2017 Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 393 EX 11:10—12:14 PS 116:12-13, 15 AND 16BC, 17-18 MT 12:1-8 In the first reading today we see the institution of a ritual so important that God told the nation of Israel to set it as the headContinue Reading
July 20, 2017 Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 392 EX 3:13-20 PS 105:1 AND 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27 MT 11:28-30 Today in the news we see another famous and influential artist having taken his own life. The man in question was one of immense talent andContinue Reading
July 18, 2017 Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 390 EX 2:1-15A PS 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34 MT 11:20-24 We often villainize the other until they are no longer human to us. The Pharaoh’s daughter heard a baby crying while out bathing in the river. Even thoughContinue Reading