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2 Nov • All the Many Souls
On this Feast of All Souls, we ponder what heaven might be like, and we pray that everyone might get there.
1 Nov • All the Many Saints
On this Solemnity of All Saints, we hear the Beatitudes, and the many ways that we can be holy.
3 Oct • Finding the deeper truth
Job's friends "know" he must have sinned if God's hand is against him.
30 Sept • God shines most brightly in the least among us
In Luke's telling, the greatest among us, the one who most closely represents God, is the least among us.
29 Sept • Cast it away, but not so far away
We have two sayings of Jesus today, one of inclusion and one of exclusion. The deeper truth lies somewhere in between.<br>
1 Sept • The religion God wants
The readings today are all about what proper religious observance looks like: following God's law in caring for the vulnerable people in their
31 Aug • Don't bury your faith
In Jesus' parable of the talents, he warns us that if we seek to protect our faith by hiding it away we will loose it.
17 Aug • Beyond sour grapes
In ancient Israel there was a saying, "Fathers have eaten green grapes, thus their children’s teeth are on edge." Children often reap the
6 Aug • Listen to Jesus
On this Feast of the Transfiguration, we remember that great event where Jesus' clothes were transformed dazzlingly white and God spoke throug
5 Aug • Our hope lies in truth
The prophet Hananiah told the people what they wanted to hear. The Prophet Jeremiah told them the truth.
4 Aug • Trust God to lead us forward
After God led the people out of Egypt, they complained because they were hungry. So God gave them manna and quail to eat in the desert.
The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fr. Scott Steinkerchner, OP and Fr. Michael Fones, OP break open the readings for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
7 July • Your choice
Jesus was a popular preacher, except in his own hometown, where he was rejected and amazed at the people's lack of faith such that "he co
6 July • Starting again, but this time better
When the Israelites came back from the Babylonian Exile, they rebuilt the temple and started over, but without a king and welcoming people from eve
25 Jun • Do unto others... or else
Jesus tells us to "enter through the narrow gate" and "do unto others as we would have them do unto us." But these things are n
24 Jun • Moving on...
John the Baptist was not named after his father, Zechariah, because he was not to follow in his father's footsteps.
13 Jun • Anger against a brother or sister
The law says "thou shalt not kill", but Jesus adds that even if we are angry with our brother or sister we are liable to judgement.