All Saints – The Feast Of The Last
Readings: Rev. 7:2-4,9-14; 1 Jn. 3:1-3; Mt. 5:1-12
On the feast of “All Saints' Day,” the Church, in order for us…
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Sunday XXXI Year B – One Love
Readings: Deut. 6:2-6; Heb. 7:23-28; Mk. 12:28-34
In today's Gospel (Mk. 12:28-34) a classic rabbinic “torment” is…
Sunday XXX Year B – Faith In Jesus Rips Through Our Darkness
Readings: Jer. 31:7-9; Heb. 5:1-6; Mk. 10:46-52
Just as the healing of the blind man of Bethsaida (Mk 8:22-26)…
Sunday XXIX Year B – Called To Martyrdom
Readings: Is 53:2,3,10-11; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45
Today's liturgy proposes to us the basic choice of our…
Sunday XXVIII Year B – The Call to Be Poor
Readings: Gen 2:18-24; Heb 2:9-11, Mk 10:2-16
Today's Gospel page is one that the Church has always taken least…
Sunday XXVII Year B – Marriage, Mystery Of Salvation
Readings: Gen 2:18-24; Heb 2:9-11, Mk 10:2-16
The Church has a wonderful revelation to make to the world regarding…
Sunday XXVI Year B – The Radical Ethics Of Love
Readings: Nm 11:25-29; Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43.45.47-48
Today's Gospel proposes to us three ethical themes of…
Sunday XXV Year B – Called to be “delivered,” like Jesus
Readings: Wis 2:12.17-20; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37
Today's Gospel presents us with the second (Mk 9:31-32) of the…
Sunday XXIV Year B – Making oneself a servant like the Servant
Readings: Is 50:5-9; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35
The First Reading (Is 50:5-9) introduces us to the “man of sorrows…
Sunday XXIII Year B – Jesus Heals The Church, Deaf And Stuttering
Readings: Is 35:4-7; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37
Leaving Capernaum, Jesus secretly goes into pagan territory, perhaps to…